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Lumber barge, inland route, Cheboygan-Petoskey, Mich. – Historic Reproduction

Lumber barge, inland route, Cheboygan-Petoskey, Mich., [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Lumber barge, inland route, Cheboygan-Petoskey, 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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This rare historic photograph captures Lumber barge, inland route, Cheboygan-Petoskey, Mich. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Lumber barge, inland route, Cheboygan-Petoskey, Mich.

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A lumber barge on an inland water route between Cheboygan and Petoskey, Michigan, is the subject here, with the towns' sawmill and shipping trade shaping the scene. Both towns sit on northern Michigan's lake shore and grew rich on white pine cut from the surrounding forests in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Barges like this one carried sawn lumber and logs along shallow waterways to lake ports, where larger vessels took it to markets across the Great Lakes. The Detroit Publishing Company made this 8 x 10 inch glass negative between about 1900 and 1910, when the company was documenting American towns, industries and scenery for rail travelers and tourists.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 4494" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071046. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsLumber industry. Rivers. Barges.United States--Michigan.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72440

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