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 Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically... (Detroit, MI)     Generic wooden engraving of a sidewheel, paddlewheeled steamboat used in advertisements

 Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically... (Detroit, MI)     This is linked to an advertisement for the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company which never owned a vessel of this type.

 Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically... (Detroit, MI)     Wooden engraving of the Goodrich Transportation Company steamboat CHICAGO signed "Manz Chicago" used to illustrate the company's 1884 advertisement for passenger services between Chicago and Milwaukee.

 Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically... (Detroit, MI)     While the volume was published in 1884, the tug ERIE BELLE exploded on 21 Nov 1883 in Kincardine while salvaging the schooner CARTER. This specific illustration was treated as a generic one in advertisements for coal dealers in the Polk directories.

 Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically... (Detroit, MI)     Generic wooden engraving of a propeller-driven steamboat with an arch from the 1880s by A. Zeese & Company of Chicago for use in advertisements