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[Ferryboat Britannia] – Vintage Print

[Ferryboat Britannia], [between 1915 and 1925] — historic photograph
[Ferryboat Britannia], [between 1915 and 1925]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Ferryboat Britannia], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Ferryboat Britannia]

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The subject here is a ferry named *Britannia*, though that title was supplied by the cataloger, so the boat's name is the main detail the record offers. The negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for travel views and postcards of American towns, landscapes, and transportation scenes in the early twentieth century. Made on a 5 by 7 inch glass plate sometime between 1915 and 1925, it was given to the collection by the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949. Glass negatives like this were the working originals from which the company's prints were made.

Created / published[between 1915 and 1925]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Detroit Publishing Co. nos., 69406, K 2821. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 678 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77290

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