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[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.] – Historic Reproduction

[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.], [1906?] — historic photograph
[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.], [1906?]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Two vessels sit at the left edge of this view: the tug S.J. Christian and the steamer Charles B. Hill, both of Ecorse, Michigan, a small river town on the Detroit River south of Detroit. The shipyard behind them, the Great Lakes Engineering Works, built steel steamers and tugs for the lake trade in the early 1900s, when iron ore, coal, and grain moved in ever larger hulls across the Great Lakes. The picture belongs to the Detroit Publishing Company's photographs of the region, made on glass negatives for commercial sale. Its three negatives were joined into one wide scene, and the record notes that they were scanned out of order, so the left-to-right sequence is worth checking against the notes.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium3 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Genreand 377-C" on left
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-21312, 21311, 21310. Tug boat S.J. Christian and steamer Charles B. Hill of Ecorse at left. 379-C
SubjectsBoat & ship industry. Cargo ships. Steamboats.United States--Michigan--Ecorse.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70688

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