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[Freighter Falcon] – Historic Print

[Freighter Falcon], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Freighter Falcon], [between 1900 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Freighter Falcon]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A freighter named Falcon is the subject here, possibly photographed at the Sault Sainte Marie canal in Michigan, where ships climbed the rapids of the St. Marys River between Lake Superior and the lower lakes. The locks there were among the busiest on the Great Lakes, moving iron ore, grain and coal in the years before 1920. Detroit Publishing Company photographers documented such shipping during this period, and the large 8 x 10 inch glass negative holds fine detail in the hull and rigging.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Possibly at Sault Sainte Marie Canal, Michigan. 69" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75170

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