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    The previous club house burned in 1901. Chittenden was hired as architect for the new club house, built in 1902. It is supposed that this illustration was part of his proposal for the new building.

    One framed watercolor painting of the passenger steamship, SS Normac, of the Owen Sound Transportation Company. The painting shows a port side bow view of the ship which is moored at a dock in Manito

    One color print of a watercolor painting of the Schooner Mary Morton. The print shows a port side view of the ship which is under full sail in fair weather on a lake. Other sailing ships can be seen

    This tug (towboat) was built in 1872 by S.R. Kirby at Campbell & Owen, Detroit.

    Could not be later than 1898, as a fourth deck was added in that year.

    This is a black and white charcoal drawing of the steamboat " The Forest Queen. " The boat is shown on choppy water. There is a center smoke-stack with black smoke pouring out. Flags are flying on bo

    This is a black and white pencil drawing titled " All In A Day's Work" by Vernon Bailey. It shows a freighter at a dock being built. On the right is scaffolding. A ramp leading to the ship has worker

    Print of Seth Arca Whipple's best-known work, the "Tug Champion with Eight Vessels in Tow" in the Detroit River. Similar in detail to a watercolor the artist did of the same subject, the rendering is

    The small steamer Island Queen was built for Datus Kelley in 1855 by Daniel Dibble on Kelley's Island in Lake Erie. She initially ran from Sandusky, Ohio to the islands, and later was owned by variou

    One watercolor painting of the passenger steamship, CITY of SOUTH HAVEN. Built at Craig Shipbuilding Co. in Toledo for Dunkley-Williams Co. of Chicago, this vessel ran a regular run between that city

    One watercolor painting of the tugboat, Sweepstakes. The painting shows a port side view of the tugboat which is underway in fair weather on a lake. The artist has signed her name, "Perry," in the lo

    This watercolor of the motor yacht YOREDA (1929) was painted by the donor, Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. for the Dossin Great Lakes Museum's collection. It shows a starboard profile view of a white yac

    Lithograph of the passenger steamer TASHMOO, from a painting by Jim Clary about 1974. Vessel is seen steaming upbound in the St. Clair River, passing St. Clair, Michigan, where Clary maintained a stu

    The Put-In-Bay was designed by Frank Kirby and launched in 1911 at the Wyandotte yards of the Detroit Shipbuilding Company. It ran daily passenger excursions from Detroit to the Lake Erie Islands, Sa

    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

    One framed reproduction print of a watercolor painting entitled "A View of Detroit and the Straits, Taken from the Huron Church, June 22nd 1804." The color print on linen paper shows a view of the Sa

    This watercolor painting is an interior view of the grand salon of the steamer GREATER DETROIT which was launched in 1924, with interior design by Louis Kiel and decorated by W. & J. Sloan Co. of New

    One framed, limited edition (169/250) color reproduction print of a painting of the bulk carrier, SS EDMUND FITZGERALD, of the Columbia Transportation Company. The print shows a port side bow view of

    One framed, limited edition (400/750) color reproduction print of a painting of the passenger steamship, SS CITY OF DETROIT III, of the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company. The print shows a sta

    Vessels name was changed to City of Cleveland III in 1912.