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Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Search

You searched for "Passenger Steamships"

588 Results Found

Blueprint - Proposed River Passenger (Screw) Steamer for Star Line

Blueprint

2013.042.120Archive

Proposed River Passenger (Screw) Steamer for Star Line

Souvenir

Souvenir

2017.168.333Object

Postcard - 11862 Steamers at Dock, Port Huron, Mich.

Postcard

2019.076.072Archive

11862 Steamers at Dock, Port Huron, Mich.

Brochure - Great Lakes Steamship Service
Canadian Pacific Railway

Brochure

2017.168.370Archive

Great Lakes Steamship Service
Canadian Pacific Railway

Timetable - Canada Steamship Lines,
Time Tables 1963

Timetable

2016.017.007Archive

Canada Steamship Lines,
Time Tables 1963

Timetable - Canada Steamship Lines,
Time Tables 1962

Timetable

2016.017.006Archive

Canada Steamship Lines,
Time Tables 1962

Drawing, Technical

2013.042.305Archive

Outboard Profile for S.S. Virginia

Drawing, Technical - SS South American,
Built in 1915 by G. L. [Great Lakes] Engineering Works

Drawing, Technical

2013.049.332Archive

SS South American,
Built in 1915 by G. L. [Great Lakes] Engineering Works

Lithograph

Lithograph

W1950.018.001Object

Postcard - White Star Line Dock, Detroit, Mich

Postcard

2019.076.053Archive

White Star Line Dock, Detroit, Mich

Stick, Swizzle

Stick, Swizzle

2017.168.339Object

Souvenir

Souvenir

2017.168.338Object

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