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[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.] – Antique Print

[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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.]

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Ecorse, a river town on the Detroit River south of Detroit, is the setting for this view of the Great Lakes Engineering Works, a shipyard that built steel vessels for the lake trade. The record lists it as one of three glass negatives, so the yard was photographed from several positions, a common way to document industrial sites. Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes expanded in the early 1900s as steel hulls replaced wooden ones, and the Detroit Publishing Company, which recorded the region's industry and scenery, captured that change along the waterfront.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium3 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Genreand 385-C" on left
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-21318, 21317, 21316. 387-C
SubjectsBoat & ship industry. Industrial facilities.United States--Michigan--Ecorse.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70693

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