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[Frank J. Hecker in the locks, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.] – Historic Print

[Frank J. Hecker in the locks, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Frank J. Hecker in the locks, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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 freighter named for Frank J. Hecker sits in the locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in this glass-plate negative from the early 1900s. The St. Marys River locks let lake vessels bypass the rapids that separate Lake Superior from the lower Great Lakes, so ships like this one were a common sight there as iron ore, grain, and other cargo moved east. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this negative, sent photographers across the country to record railroads, towns, and waterways, and its large-format plates still show the scale of the machinery and the ships that depended on it.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 4560" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070579. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsFrank J. Hecker (Freighter) Cargo ships. Locks (Hydraulic engineering)United States--Michigan--Sault Sainte Marie.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72160

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