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[Str. United States, Chicago, Ill.] – Historic Reproduction

[Str. United States, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Str. United States, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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A window into the past: [Str. United States, Chicago, Ill.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Str. United States, Chicago, Ill.]

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The steamer *United States* is named in the record only by its title, so its route and owners are not documented here. Early twentieth-century Chicago's river and harbor handled a steady traffic of passenger and freight steamers linking the city with Great Lakes ports, and a view like this preserves that working waterfront. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced many city and landscape views for tourists and commercial buyers in these years, made the 8 by 10 inch glass negative, whose large format keeps fine detail in the vessel and its surroundings.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8310" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500200. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUnited States (Steamboat) Steamboats.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74607

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