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Sailing ship R.C. Rickmers, deck view, looking forward – Historic Print

Sailing ship R.C. Rickmers, deck view, looking forward, [1906?] — historic photograph
Sailing ship R.C. Rickmers, deck view, looking forward, [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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Step back in time with Sailing ship R.C. Rickmers, deck view, looking forward, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Looking forward along the deck of the German sailing ship R.C. Rickmers, this view shows the long working deck and the rigging that a large iron or steel sailing vessel of the period depended on. The ship belonged to the Rickmers shipping firm of Bremerhaven, a family business that operated sailing vessels in the era before steam dominated long-distance cargo. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 x 10 inch glass negative, produced views of ships, ports, and cities across North America and beyond, and the date given here, about 1906, is an estimate. The negative's Colorado provenance, a 1949 gift to the State Historical Society, is noted in its record.

Created / published[1906?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes4" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022249. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan810 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-65230

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