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Identifier	AK01a084.jpg
Title	Steamer Vessel "Artic"
Creator	Rutherford, James
Subject	Soo Locks (Mich.) ; Boats and boating
Description	Cyanotype photograph of the Steamer "Arctic" or "Artic" of the Lake Superior Transportation Company. A wooden propellor built at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1864 for the Buffalo and Cleveland Transportation Company. Gross tonnage of 786 tons and dimensions as ff.: 193.7' x 28.1' x 10.8'. Carried both freight and passengers. Later she was in the Union Steamship Co., and ran to Lake Superior, in 1886-1887 being sold to the Hall Coal Company at Ogdensburgh, New York, when she was cut down to a coal carrier. On September 5, 1893 she foundered off White Rock in Lake Huron, in a gale. The "Atlantic" and "Pacific" that were about the same size and with wooden arches, also were owned by the Buffalo-Cleveland Transportation Company.
Publisher	Bayliss Public Library (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.) ; Superiorland Library Cooperative (Marquette, Mich.)
Contributors	Fowle, Otto
Date	ca. 1880
DateDigital	3/16/2005
Type	Image/photograph
Format	image/jpeg ; 630 KB
Source	Electronic reproduction of: Photograph of Steamer Vessel ""Artic"" ; 11 x 19 cm. Original held at the Bayliss Public Library, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Language	eng
Coverage	1880-1889
CoverageSpatial	Sault Ste. Marie (Mich)
Rights	Digital materials in the Upper Peninsula Digitization Center collections are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide. For further information contact the Superiorland Library Cooperative staff (updigit@uproc.lib.mi.us).

Steamer Vessel ""Artic""

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