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Green Line steamer – Vintage Print

Green Line steamer, c1940. — historic photograph
Green Line steamer, c1940.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Green Line steamer. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Green Line steamer in this c1940 print is one of the packet boats that carried freight and passengers on the western rivers, at a time when steam still handled much of the regional trade. The photograph comes from Caufield & Shook, a Louisville commercial studio that documented river craft and river cities, and the print was registered for copyright under the studio's name. Packet steamers of this kind were recognizable by their tall stacks, long decks, and paddlewheels, and by the 1940s they were giving way to diesel towboats and trucks. The picture preserves a working vessel near the end of that era.

Created / publishedc1940.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1950.
NotesJ30446 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Caufield & Shook, Inc., Louisville, Ky. No. 158719.
SubjectsSteamboats--1930-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,285 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180334

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