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[Excursion steamers Tashmoo and Idlewild at wharves, Detroit] – Historic Print

[Excursion steamers Tashmoo and Idlewild at wharves, Detroit], [ca. 1901] — historic photograph
[Excursion steamers Tashmoo and Idlewild at wharves, Detroit], [ca. 1901]. 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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Two side-wheel excursion steamers, the *Tashmoo* and the *Idlewild*, lie at the wharves in this view of Detroit around 1901. Lake and river excursion boats of this kind carried holiday crowds out to summer resorts and parks, so the passengers and piers in the picture show the leisure traffic that kept Detroit's waterfront busy. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many views of American cities and waterways in the early twentieth century, made the image on an 8 x 10 inch glass negative, a format that gave its prints fine detail in the boats' rigging and paddle housings.

Created / published[ca. 1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 79" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042580. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTashmoo (Side wheeler) Idlewild (Side wheeler) Passengers. Side wheelers. Piers & wharves.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69721

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