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[Freighter E.J. Earling in the locks] – Historic Print

[Freighter E.J. Earling in the locks], [between 1906 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Freighter E.J. Earling in the locks], [between 1906 and 1920]. 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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[Freighter E.J. Earling in the locks] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A lake freighter, the E.J. Earling, fills most of the frame as it sits inside a lock, its hull rising above the stone walls that hold the water. The picture was made from an 8 by 10 inch glass plate, a large format that captured fine detail in the steel plates, the rails and the rippling water. The Detroit Publishing Company sold views of ships, towns and scenery to railroads and travel promoters in the years before 1920. Locks like this one controlled the passage of ore and grain boats between water levels, which made them busy and worth recording.

Created / published[between 1906 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 62. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75166

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