Group of sailors – Historic Print
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This historic image of Group of sailors brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Group of sailors
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Few details survive about the men pictured here, so the image rests mostly on its setting: a group of sailors posed together, a theme that turns up often on steamboat-era boards. Photographs like this one were typically made on or near the docks, when crews stood for a portrait before or after a run. Steamboats carried passengers and freight along American rivers through the 19th century, and their deckhands, firemen and pilots formed a working community that rarely appears in the official records. Pictures of crews like this one help show who actually kept those boats running.
| Original scan | 2,683 × 2,012 px · prints to 9 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1878u Group of sailors |
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