This black-and-white photo shows the Great Lakes passenger steamer City of Cleveland III easing toward a dock as a crowd gathers along the pier. Smoke pours from the stacks, and another vessel sits nearby, suggesting a busy waterfront on a hazy day.
The City of Cleveland III was part of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company’s famed passenger service, carrying travelers between Great Lakes ports in the early 1900s. Library of Congress catalog info for a related Detroit Publishing Co. negative dates this era to about 1910–1920, when “up the lakes” trips were a seasonal ritual for tourists, business groups and families.
Do you recognize the dock or remember taking a lake steamer trip like this?
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