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[Steamer City of Cleveland, stern view showing construction] – Historic Reproduction

[Steamer City of Cleveland, stern view showing construction], [1907] — historic photograph
[Steamer City of Cleveland, stern view showing construction], [1907]. Historic photograph from the Cleveland 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Steamer City of Cleveland, stern view showing construction]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This 1907 glass-plate negative shows the stern of the steamer *City of Cleveland* while it was still under construction at Wyandotte, Michigan, on the Detroit River. Its unfinished state makes the hull framing and the rear of the vessel easy to read. The Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American towns, rivers, and industry in the early twentieth century, made the picture. Lake passenger steamers like this one carried travelers and freight between Great Lakes ports, and images of their construction show the shipbuilding trade at its peak.

Created / published[1907]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. R 60" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043394. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCity of Cleveland (Steamboat) Steamboats. Boat & ship industry.United States--Michigan--Wyandotte.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70295

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