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[Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland harbor] – Historic Reproduction

[Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland harbor], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland harbor], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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Step back in time with [Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland harbor], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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This view of Cleveland's harbor survives as three separate 8 x 10 inch glass negatives, which were meant to be joined into one wide panorama. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued photographs of American towns and landscapes in the years around 1900, made many such views for sale to the public. Cleveland's harbor, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River on Lake Erie, was a busy shipping point, where lake freighters and railroad lines moved iron ore, coal, and freight. The rail tracks running along the waterfront in the record show how closely the city's commerce depended on that connection between lake and land.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium3 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs.
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images out of sequence; actual left to right order is: 1A-18928, 18929, 18927. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037005. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHarbors. Lakes & ponds. Railroads.United States--Ohio--Cleveland.United States--Erie, Lake.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68307

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