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[Shafting for new Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. steamer] – Vintage Print

[Shafting for new Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. steamer], [1907?] — historic photograph
[Shafting for new Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. steamer], [1907?]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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 picture shows the machine shop floor where long steel shafting was prepared for a new steamer of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company, the line that ran passenger boats between Detroit and Cleveland on Lake Erie and the Detroit River. The record links it to the steamboat *City of Cleveland* and places it in Wyandotte, a shipbuilding and industrial town downriver from Detroit. Shafting carried power from the engines to the propellers, so the work was heavy and exacting. The image was made as a large glass-plate negative by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographs documented Michigan's industries and cities in the early 1900s.

Created / published[1907?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Probably for the steamboat City of Cleveland. R 59" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043381. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCity of Cleveland (Steamboat) Industrial facilities. Interiors. Machinery. Boat & ship industry.United States--Michigan--Wyandotte.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 812 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70286

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