Launching of the Detroit – Antique Wall Art
![Launching of the Detroit, [between 1890 and 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d6/d634ae5bd0d3-L.webp)
(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 historic photograph of Launching of the Detroit brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Launching of the Detroit
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A yacht named *Detroit* is shown at the moment of its launch, the boat's name identifying it as a vessel built for the city's own waterfront. The picture is an 8 by 10 inch glass negative made sometime between 1890 and 1910 by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sold views of American cities and landscapes as souvenirs and postcards. Launchings like this one drew crowds to the riverfront, where shipyards and wharves served the boat trade that made Detroit a center of Great Lakes shipping and recreational boating. Pictures of such events record the vessel as well as the piers and onlookers around it.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Notes | 56 Glover" on negative. On boat being launched: Detroit |
| Subjects | Detroit (Yacht) Launchings. Yachts. Boat & ship industry. Piers & wharves.United States--Michigan. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 775 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64267 |
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