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    Gouache and pencil on paper drawing of a Mackinaw boat with sails raised flying an American flag. A three-masted, arched propeller is off the stern in the background. Mounted on cardboard.

    Copyrighted by the Ashland Daily Press ASHLAND, LAKE SUPERIOR, WIS. 1890 Population 16,000. Increase in Ten Years, 11,000 Published by The Ashland Daily Press Marr & Richards Engraving Co., Milwaukee

   

    Built by James Davidson

   

    Pen & ink drawing

    Walkerville and Detroit Ferry Winter Time Table Detroit Dock Foot of Walker Street.

   

    Pen and black ink on coated wove paper. Laid down on album page

    Pen & ink drawing

    Water colour

    from collection at Canal Park Marine Museum, Duluth

    This oil painting, entitled "Building the Breakwater," is by Detroit artist Robert Hopkin, and appears to show a coffer dam and timber-and-tackle gantries employed in building Chicago’s breakwall int

    This watercolor illustrates two vessels running before a storm in open water. The nearest is a two-masted scow schooner. Behind that is a smaller vessel with a single, gaff-rigged mainsail. The heavy

    This unusual work by Seth Arca Whipple was painted on a wooden artist’s palette, and illustrates an unnamed, generic package freighter of the period. Whipple was a highly sought Detroit artist who pr

    This waterfront view of Buffalo Harbor was painted by Howard Sprague, likely in the early 1890s, when he was in his 20s. The steamer departing could be the D&C’s new City of Detroit II (1889). Spragu

    This dynamic watercolor of the steamer Sheboygan was painted by June Perry, artist, diver, and wife of maritime historian C. Patrick Labadie. It is undated. The Sheboygan was built in Manitowoc, Wisc

    Watercolour, pen and ink over pencil on paper

    Watercolour, pen and ink, touches of gouache, over graphite, on wove paper, mounted