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[Str. United States, Chicago, Ill.] – Historic Print

[Str. United States, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Str. United States, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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. United States, Chicago, Ill.]

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A steamer named the *United States* is the particular subject of this view, photographed beside hoisting machinery on a Chicago waterfront. The city's river and harbor handled a steady flow of Great Lakes freight in the early 1900s, and hoists like these were essential for moving cargo between ships and rail lines or warehouses. The glass dry plate negative came from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for recording American cities, industry, and scenery in this period. Its date falls somewhere between 1900 and 1915, when Chicago's shipping and industrial riverfront was expanding quickly.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8292" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500198. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUnited States (Steamboat) Steamboats. Hoisting machinery.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74605

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