$125.00 CAD
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Very attractive mounted photo of the sidewheel passenger steamer ‘City of Alpena’ view from the Butler St. dock at Port Huron Michigan.
The steamer City of Alpena was a luxurious 285‑ft, 2,000‑horsepower sidewheel passenger steamer built in 1893 for the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Co. (D&C Line). It served Michigan and Great Lakes ports east of Lake Michigan, especially Detroit → Mackinac → Lake Huron towns.
Mounted on a customer thick card. Engraved on the frame:
‘Str. City of Alpena Seen from Butler St. Dock. "
Frame 5 ⅞” x 7 ⅞” Photo 4” x 6 ¼”
Steamship Traveling on the Great Lakes in the 1880s gave rise to the term “Going Up North”. Before the railroads and automobiles. Michigan’s tourism and resort areas began to grow because steamships could take a businessman from Chicago or Detroit to join families in northern Michigan Friday afternoon and return him Monday morning rested and refreshed and ready to work.
The Steamer City of Alpena and the City of Mackinac were sister ships conducting service as part of the Detroit and Cleveland line. This sidewheel paddlewheel started service in 1893 and could carry up to 400 passengers and freight
The ship ran the Lake Huron Route for 28 years, till 1921
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