Loading a Great Whaleback Ship at the Famous Grain Elevators of Chicago, Illinois

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Description

This stereograph features a whaleback freighter docked at a group of grain elevators on the edge of the water. Men are standing along the top of the freighter and large wooden ladders are propped from the freighter to the side of the grain elevators. The publisher's name is printed at each end of the images and the title of the images and the copyright are printed along the bottom right edge. The back of the stereograph provides a history on grain cargo and the whaleback freighter.

Publication Date

1890

Publisher

Underwood and Underwood

Time Period

1890-1899

Subjects

Grain elevators; Freight vessels

Geographic Location

Chicago, (Ill.)

Object Type

image

Format (original)

stereograph: b&w

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MFM_MSS_837_Stereograph-70_001

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Division, Manuscripts Unit, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Americana Collection, Stereographs

Repository

Manuscripts

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.MSState.edu.

Recommended Citation

Loading a Great Whaleback Ship at the Famous Grain Elevators of Chicago, Illinois, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Archives and Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University