Christopher Columbus
Description
- Creator
- Sprague, Howard F. (attrib.), Artist
- Item Type
- Lithographs
- Description
- This color lithograph shows the whaleback passenger propeller Christopher Columbus in her early years. The poster was used as a promotional tool during the 1893 Columbian Exposition, during which the ship ran an estimated two million passengers between downtown Chicago and the exposition site at Grant Park. She was the only passenger whaleback constructed and was built specifically for the fair. Afterward, a fourth deck was added, and it was sold to Goodrich Transit Co. and ran Chicago to Milwaukee until being laid up in 1929.
While this illustration is not signed or dated, it was likely done by Howard Sprague, who had been hired in 1890 to do similar promotional work for Alexander McDougall, designer and builder of the famed whalebacks in Duluth. The ship was under construction in 1892, while Sprague was on staff, and the style is compatible with that artist's work. - Notes
- Could not be later than 1898, as a fourth deck was added in that year.
- Date of Original
- ca. 1892
- Date Of Event
- ca. 1893
- Dimensions
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Width: 42.5 in
Height: 26.5 in
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 38in
Image Height: 22.5in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Alexander McDougall
- Corporate Name(s)
- Columbia Whaleback Steam Ship Co. ; American Steel Barge Co.
- Local identifier
- 2006.004.162
- Collection
- Dossin Great Lakes Museum
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Illinois, United States
Latitude: 41.85003 Longitude: -87.65005
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Detroit Historical SocietyEmail:jeremyd@detroithistorical.org
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