Digital Collection
2018.110.041

Print, Photographic

One black and white photograph of the work operations for laying an underwater telephone cable across the Trenton Channel of the lower Detroit River. The photo shows a Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Company barge with a cable reel and crane. Cable is unwinding from the reel and is passing over a guide bar before entering the river. Workmen are standing on the barge deck. In the left foreground, a workman is standing beside a parked truck. The Grosse Ile shoreline is visible in the background.

Date
1973
Collection
Print Size
8" x 10"
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