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Str. City of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. – Historic Print

Str. City of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
Str. City of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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Str. City of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The steamer *City of Chicago*, a side-wheel vessel, is the subject here, and it points to how much passenger and freight traffic once moved across the Great Lakes. Side-wheelers, with large paddle wheels mounted on each side of the hull, were a familiar sight on Lake Michigan and other inland waters in the decades around 1900. This view is a glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers recorded American cities, waterways and transportation in the early twentieth century. The 8 by 10 inch format gave the company's views a sharp detail that made them popular.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 022831. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCity of Chicago (Side wheeler) Side wheelers.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-65685

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