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- Monochromatic glass-plate negative from the studio of Louis James Pesha depicting the bow and port side of the Imperial Oil Company freighter IOCOMA, under steam. A figure stands on deck adjacent to a lifeboat at the stern. A tree-lined shoreline is visible in the background. The image is captioned with the date, 1916.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- Negative, glass-plate. Monochromatic glass-plate negative from the studio of Louis James Pesha depicting the starboard side of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company freighter SIR WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN, under steam. Two crew members stand near the cabin at midship. A line extends off frame from the stern of the freighter, suggesting that it is tugging something. A tree-lined shoreline is visible in the background. "In 1915" was handwritten on the non-archival envelope which previous held the plate.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- Negative, glass-plate. Monochromatic glass-plate negative from the studio of Louis James Pesha depicting the bow and port side of the Inter Ocean Steamship Company freighter JAMES E. DAVIDSON, under steam. Several crew members are on the flying bridge, and near the aft cabin. A tree-lined shoreline is visible in the background. The image is captioned, "1915."
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- Monochromatic glass-plate negative from the studio of Louis James Pesha depicting the starboard side of the Herman H. Hettler Lumber Company freighter HERMAN H. HETTLER, under steam with a deck-load of lumber. Two women and a man sit atop the lumber near the bow, and a long figure sits on the starboard side toward the stern. A tree-lined shoreline is visible in the background. The image is captioned with the date, "1915."
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- Monochromatic glass-plate negative from the studio of Louis James Pesha depicting the port side of the Pennsylvania Steamship Company freighter JACOB T. KOPP, under steam. Three figures are on the main deck, another stands at the stern, and a fifth is inside of a cowl vent adjacent to the smokestack. A tree-lined shoreline is visible in the background. The image is captioned with the date, 1915. The non-archival envelope which previously housed the plate included the following hand-written details: JACOB T KOPP 204.815 renamed G.N. WILSON CONSUMERS POWER HARRY YATES EDMUND P. SMITH 1939
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- Negative, glass-plate. Monochromatic glass-plate negative from the studio of Louis James Pesha depicting the port side of the Canada Steamship Lines freighter DORIC, under steam. A rowboat with two passengers is off the DORIC's port side, and a small propeller-driven boat with a canopy is in the rear. A crew members stands on the flying bridge, and two more sit near the stern. A tree-lined shoreline is visible in the background. The image is captioned, "1915."
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- Silent 16mm film beginning with black and white c. 1928 Detroit News newsreel footage of Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association members disembarking from the excursion boat TASHMOO (continued from the end of reel 2015.011.022), followed by color footage of the launch of the EDMUND FITZGERALD on June 7, 1958, and then c. 1962 black and white footage of the Wyandotte Transportation Company freighter WYANDOTTE, the laker SNEATON, and the American Steamship Company freighter ADAM E. CORNELIUS as shot from a beach. The EDMUND FITZGERALD footage captures workers hammering the supports beneath the freighter in preparation for it's launch, and the crowds gathered at Great Lakes Engineering Works. The launch is filmed from an elevated position above the center of the slip into which the freighter slides. An Allied Film Laboratory logo appears at the beginning of the reel.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting an aerial view of the Rouge Plant Docks at the Ford Motor Company. Printed on verso: DOCKS AT THE ROUGE PLANT are 1-1/3 miles long and are on the Rouge River. Here Ford ships and other Great Lakes Freighters bring in great cargoes of iron ore, coal, limestone and lumber used in the manufacture of Ford cars and trucks. The storage bins have a capacity of 2,000,000 tons. Printed by The Garraway Company, Rutherford, New Jersey.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Monochromatic glass-plate negative from the studio of Louis James Pesha depicting the bow and port side of the Mahoning Steamship Company freighter LEONARD C. HANNA, under steam. Several figures are on the flying bridge, while another sits under the awning behind the pilot house, and two others stand near the aft cabin. Two people are also in a small boat being pulled behind the HANNA. A tree-lined shoreline is visible in the background. The image is captioned with the date, "1916."
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Silent color 16mm film containing the documentary "Great Lakes Engineering Works Ship Builders and Engineers, River Rouge 18, Mich. Presents Hull 301" shot of the launch of the EDMUND FITZGERALD on June 7, 1958 by R.J. Anderson and Company. The film shows the crowds of spectators, both on land at Great Lakes Engineering Works, as well as in boats on the river, and on the stage set up in front of the boat's bow. The launch is captured from off the freighter's port quarter, and again off of the port bow. The film ends after several shots of the freighter floating in the slip, and of the crowd.
- Date Issued:
- 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
