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[Steamer Britannia, Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Wall Art

[Steamer Britannia, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Steamer Britannia, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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A window into the past: [Steamer Britannia, Detroit, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Steamer Britannia, Detroit, Mich.]

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The subject is the steamer *Britannia*, photographed at Detroit, where passenger and freight steamers moved along the Detroit River and across the Great Lakes in the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made the picture, built a large body of views of the city's streets, waterfront, and shipping in these years, and this 8 by 10 inch glass negative captures that working river traffic at a time when steamboats were still central to travel and trade in the region. The negative reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 6016" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039088. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBritannia (Steamboat) Steamboats.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68782

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