Superior Ship Yards, W. Superior, Wisconsin, 1902 – Vintage Wall Art
(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 rare historic image captures Superior Ship Yards, W. Superior, Wisconsin, 1902 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Superior Ship Yards, W. Superior, Wis.
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Superior Ship Yards, W. Superior, Wisconsin, 1902
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West Superior, Wisconsin, in 1902 was a busy lake port at the western tip of Lake Superior, sharing a harbor with Duluth, Minnesota, across the bay. Its waterfront depended on the Great Lakes trade, with iron ore arriving by rail from the Minnesota ranges and grain moving east from the elevators and the railroad docks. The shipyard shown here fit that economy, since lake freighters were being built and repaired for the ore and grain routes, and the steel hulls of the new era were replacing older wooden vessels. Railroad lines that ran into the twin ports tied the yards, docks, and mills to the wider country, and the workers who labored along the bay were mostly immigrant families from northern and central Europe. Residents of the time would have known the town first as a harbor where ships and trains met.
| Created / published | 1902 |
|---|---|
| Creator | crandall & fletcher |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Wisconsin |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,180 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Superior Ship Yards, W. Superior, Wis. |
| Reference | WI 1902 Superior Ship Yards, W. Superior |
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