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[Shafting for new Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. steamer] – Historic Reproduction

[Shafting for new Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. steamer], [1907?] — historic photograph
[Shafting for new Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. steamer], [1907?]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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This interior view shows the drive shafting being installed for a new steamer of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company, a line that ran passenger boats across the Great Lakes between Detroit and Cleveland. The record places the work at Wyandotte, Michigan, a Detroit River town with a long shipbuilding tradition, and suggests the vessel was probably the *City of Cleveland*. Shafting like this carried power from the engines to the propeller, so it was among the most important parts of a steamboat's machinery. The picture is one of the Detroit Publishing Company's large glass-plate negatives, made around 1907 when the company was documenting American industry and travel.

Created / published[1907?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Probably for the steamboat City of Cleveland. R 58" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043380. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCity of Cleveland (Steamboat) Industrial facilities. Interiors. Machinery. Boat & ship industry.United States--Michigan--Wyandotte.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 812 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70285

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