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[Str. Eastland, Cleveland, Ohio] – Historic Print

[Str. Eastland, Cleveland, Ohio], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Str. Eastland, Cleveland, Ohio], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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A window into the past: [Str. Eastland, Cleveland, Ohio], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Str. Eastland, Cleveland, Ohio]

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Few steamers on the Great Lakes carried more holiday excursion traffic than the *Eastland*, shown here tied up in Cleveland with a lifesaving station visible behind it. Passenger steamers like this one ran summer trips between lake ports, and the station in the background reflects the waterfront safety infrastructure that grew up around that traffic. The *Eastland* is better known for capsizing at a Chicago River dock in July 1915, which killed more than 800 people and became one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region's history. This glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American towns and transportation in color-tinted and black-and-white views around 1900 to 1915.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Lifesaving station in background. No. 95 G.F.C." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500401. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsEastland (Steamship) Ships.United States--Ohio--Cleveland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74780

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