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[S.S. North West] – Historic Print

[S.S. North West], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[S.S. North West], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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The title identifies this glass negative as the steamship *North West*, the "S.S." prefix marking a steam-powered vessel of the kind that carried passengers and freight on American rivers and lakes in the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company, based in Detroit, photographed and sold views of towns, landscapes, and transportation across the country around this time, and its tourist-oriented catalog made many of its images widely known. This 8 x 10 inch plate was later given to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949 and eventually entered the Library of Congress, so it now serves as a record of the company's work and of the steamboat trade during the decade it was made.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. C 338" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033932. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67079

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