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[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.], [1906] — historic photograph
[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.], [1906]. 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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A window into the past: [Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.]

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This view of the Great Lakes Engineering Works at Ecorse, Michigan, shows the steamer *James Laughlin* at the left edge of the frame, with the yard's hulls and fittings behind it. The yard sat on the Detroit River just south of Detroit, where it built and repaired the iron and steel lake freighters that carried ore and coal across the Great Lakes in the early 1900s. The picture is one of three glass negatives the Detroit Publishing Company made of the site in 1906, and its record gives a useful snapshot of working shipbuilding during that era.

Created / published[1906]
Medium3 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Genreand 379" on left
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-21309, 21308, 21307. Steamer James Laughlin at left. 381
SubjectsJames Laughlin (Freighter) Boat & ship industry. Cargo ships.United States--Michigan--Ecorse.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70684

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