Digital Collection
2018.110.072

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. A Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Company barge with a cable reel and crane is visible on the river at the center of the photo. The tugboat, Paddy Miles, can be seen at the left and a second tugboat, Sachem, can be seen at the right. A shoreline is visible in the far background.

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