Str. Columbia"" – Historic Print
![Str. Columbia"", [Detroit] : Detroit Publishing Co., c1908. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7f/7fd85649c774-L.webp)
(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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Str. Columbia"" comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Str. Columbia""
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The steamer Columbia is the subject of this color postcard, issued by the Detroit Publishing Co. around 1908. The firm was one of the best-known American publishers of photochrome views, a process that printed photographs from several lithographic stones in color, giving scenes a soft, painted look. Its cards were sold widely to travelers, who mailed them home as souvenirs of trips on rivers and lakes. Steamboats like the Columbia were a familiar sight in that period, carrying passengers and freight before rail and the automobile took over much of that traffic.
| Created / published | [Detroit] : Detroit Publishing Co., c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (postcard): photolithograph, color. |
| Genre | Postcards 1900-1910.Photolithographs Color 1840-1850. |
| Notes | No. 11656. |
| Subjects | Steamboats--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,425 × 1,143 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217798 |
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