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[View of Riga, Latvia with waterfront in foregrd; freighter ERIK and lumber barges] – Vintage Photo Print

[View of Riga, Latvia with waterfront in foregrd; freighter ERIK and lumber barges], [between ca. 1900 and 1918] — historic photograph
[View of Riga, Latvia with waterfront in foregrd; freighter ERIK and lumber barges], [between ca. 1900 and 1918]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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 freighter named ERIK and a line of lumber barges fill the foreground of this view of Riga, Latvia, which makes the scene a record of the port at work. Before 1918, Riga sat on the Daugava River near the Gulf of Riga and was one of the Russian Empire's busiest Baltic harbors, with timber among its major exports. The print comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, an early twentieth-century news picture archive, so it reads as documentation of commerce. The caption details were transcribed from old cards and may not be fully verified, but the shipping and timber trade are clearly visible.

Created / published[between ca. 1900 and 1918]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item, with subsequent revisions. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Lumber; Freight; Ships; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,185 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141307

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