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[Steamer Tionesta, Great Lakes Transit Co.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Steamer Tionesta, Great Lakes Transit Co.], [between 1910 and 1930] — historic photograph
[Steamer Tionesta, Great Lakes Transit Co.], [between 1910 and 1930]. Historic photograph from the Steamboats 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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[Steamer Tionesta, Great Lakes Transit Co.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Steamer Tionesta, Great Lakes Transit Co.]

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The steamer Tionesta, operated by the Great Lakes Transit Company, is the subject here, and this negative is a copy of an earlier photographic print rather than an original view taken from the deck or dock. Lake steamers of the early twentieth century carried passengers and bulk freight such as grain and iron ore between Great Lakes ports, and a company photograph like this one would have served as a record of the fleet. The Detroit Publishing Company, which assembled this collection, issued many views of American waterways and towns, though this copy carries no company number. The glass plate, a 5 by 7 inch negative, dates to sometime between 1910 and 1930 and came to the collection as a gift in 1949.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1930]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreReproductions.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. Photograph of a photographic print; cf. negative D419-119 for another reproduction. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 699 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77097

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