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[City of Cleveland, Steamer #168 on the ways] – Antique Print

[City of Cleveland, Steamer #168 on the ways], [1907] — historic photograph
[City of Cleveland, Steamer #168 on the ways], [1907]. Historic photograph from the Cleveland 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 view shows the steamer *City of Cleveland*, hull 168, resting on the ways at a shipyard in Wyandotte, Michigan, a river town just south of Detroit. Taken in 1907, the glass negative captures a Great Lakes passenger and cargo steamer out of the water, with its hull open to inspection or repair. Ships on the ways reveal construction and maintenance details that are hidden once a vessel is afloat, which makes such scenes valuable to historians of lake shipbuilding. The Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American towns, industry and transportation in this period, made the image.

Created / published[1907]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043361. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCity of Cleveland (Steamboat) Boat & ship industry. Steamboats.United States--Michigan--Wyandotte.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70277

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