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[Fall River and Fall River Line boat from roof Hotel (Mellen), Fall River, Mass.] – Vintage Print

[Fall River and Fall River Line boat from roof Hotel (Mellen), Fall River, Mass.], [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Fall River and Fall River Line boat from roof Hotel (Mellen), Fall River, Mass.], [between 1910 and 1920]. 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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A window into the past: [Fall River and Fall River Line boat from roof Hotel (Mellen), Fall River, Mass.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Fall River and Fall River Line boat from roof Hotel (Mellen), Fall River, Mass.]

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A Fall River Line steamer is the focus of this view, taken from the roof of the Hotel Mellen in Fall River, Massachusetts. The line's boats ran overnight between Fall River and New York City across Long Island Sound, carrying passengers and freight and tying the mill city to the wider Atlantic coast. Fall River had grown rich on cotton textile manufacturing in the late 1800s, and its waterfront was busy in the years between 1910 and 1920, when this glass negative was made. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced the picture, sold its city views widely as prints and postcards.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. # 9" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500958. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUnited States--Massachusetts--Fall River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75062

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