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[Steamer Rotterdam] – Vintage Print

[Steamer Rotterdam], [between 1897 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Steamer Rotterdam], [between 1897 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Steamboats 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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[Steamer Rotterdam] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Rather than a view of the vessel itself, this is a photograph of a painting of the steamer Rotterdam, signed by the artist Fred Pansing. The Detroit Publishing Company made it as a glass plate negative between 1897 and 1910, when the firm was reproducing paintings and prints alongside its better-known travel views. Because it records a painted rendering, it shows how a steamboat was pictured for the public at the turn of the century, with the artist's choices of light, water, and composition standing in for a direct camera view.

Created / published[between 1897 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Paintings Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket. Photograph of painting signed Fred Pansing. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042545. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69700

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