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Great Lakes Engineering Works – Vintage Wall Art

Great Lakes Engineering Works, [1906?] — historic photograph
Great Lakes Engineering Works, [1906?]. 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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This panoramic view shows the Great Lakes Engineering Works shipyard at Ecorse, Michigan, on the Detroit River, where the firm built steel vessels for the Great Lakes trade. The scene is recorded on three glass plates joined into one wide frame, and the hoisting machinery visible in the yard points to the heavy lifting that steel hull construction required. The record gives the date as about 1906. Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American towns, industries and waterways around the turn of the century, made images like this one for commercial sale and record.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium3 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenrePanoramic photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesJacket title: Great Lakes Eng. Wks., Ecorse, Mich. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-21306, 21305, 21304. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 047039. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsBoat & ship industry. Industrial facilities. Hoisting machinery.United States--Michigan--Ecorse.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70681

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