compiler's name withheld / MARITIME GREAT LAKES CLEVELAND Well-composed photo

Description: [MARITIME] [GREAT LAKES] [CLEVELAND] Well-composed photo album containing over 100 images of ships, docks, harbors on the Great Lakes, including Cleveland, Detroit, Sault Ste. Marie, Houghton, and elsewhere Author: [compiler's name withheld] Title: [MARITIME] [GREAT LAKES] [CLEVELAND] Well-composed photo album containing over 100 images of ships, docks, harbors on the Great Lakes, including Cleveland, Detroit, Sault Ste. Marie, Houghton, and elsewhere Publication: [Cleveland and elsewhere]: 1939 Description: String binding. Oblong quarto. 163 photographs, nearly all measuring about 2.75" x 4.5", including white borders. Most photographs are laid in to corner mounts, some of which are missing. Most, though not all, of the photographs are captioned in white ink on the album leaves, and there are sometimes further details inked or typed on the verso of the prints. (Some of those lacking album captions have some identifying notations on the verso). Apart from occasional age-toning or a few mild stains, the photographs are in excellent condition; very good or better. Some minor mold/soiling to the album boards and extremities. Very good +. A focused, detailed, and well-composed group of identified images which offer a close-up of working life on the Great Lakes on the eve of World War II. The album's compiler was a young woman who was engaged to a crew member of the SS Yosemite. For whatever reason, she was able to join her beau for a summer on the ship, and used her keen amateur eye to capture the busy industrial life of the harbors of the Great Lakes at their peak. There are snapshots of ships passing each other in tight squeezes on the Cuyahoga River; iron ore being removed from the Yosemite in Marquette, Michigan; a tugboat guiding the Yosemite into a tight spot in Milwaukee; barges on the Cuyahoga with Terminal Tower just in the background; and a number of close-up shots of the Yosemite's hull in dry dock in Cleveland. The couple was in Cleveland on Labor Day, so of course they took some shots of the air show. There are also several other shots of the city of Cleveland, which the photographer has labeled as "housing clearance" in anticipation of further industrial land development. The SS Yosemite, owned during this period by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., was eventually traded to the U. S. War Shipping Administration in 1943. Several years after the war, it was scrapped in Buffalo. The final dozen or so photographs in the album are personal/family portraits, unrelated to shipping. There are also about 15 spaces in the album with corner mounts and captions, but the photograhphs have been removed and are not present. Altogether a pleasingly detailed and well-executed album of Great Lakes Shipping, taken at the end of a century of industrial progress in the region. Seller ID: 8166 Subject: Photography Cleveland Book Company Lakewood, OH As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Guarantee All items may be returned within 30 days, with a full refund including shipping costs if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Shipping All books shipped to US destinations by USPS Media Mail. Delivery typically takes 5 to 14 days, but may be longer, especially during the holidays. Tracking is provided on all domestic shipments. Expedited and international shipping is available, please contact us for a price quote BEFORE placing an order. We are happy to combine shipping on multiple items. Payment We prefer PayPal. Feedback We leave feedback after receiving buyer's feedback. If you are unhappy with your order for any reason, please contact us before leaving feedback, and we will resolve the problem! We take pride in our business and make every attempt to describe each item in our inventory accurately according to the highest standards of the rare book trade.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

Price: 881 USD

Location: Lakewood, Ohio

End Time: 2024-08-06T19:18:26.000Z

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