Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Accession # |
2006-24-132 |
Description |
Starboard side view of passenger steamer ALABAMA underway with shoreline visible in the background. ALABAMA was operated by the Chicago Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Company. June 1939. |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
06/1939 |
Place |
Sturgeon Bay, WI |
Vessel Info |
ALABAMA was operated by the Chicago Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Company. |
Size of original |
3.5" x 2.5" |
Search Terms |
ALABAMA Passenger Vessel Chicago Duluth & Georgian Bay Transportation Company |
Credit line |
Donated in memory of Robert D. Krauss |
Provenance |
Collection of maritime photographs and negatives from Sturgeon Bay Boat Works, estate of Robert Krauss (Father of the donor). Robert Krauss died August 11, 1999. He was employed at the Kewaunee Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation in the early 1940s when the photos were taken. In 1945 or 1946 he started his own boat building company called "Krauss Kraft." He built two ferry boats for Washington Island. He worked with Walter Haertel, a naval architect from Sturgeon Bay, WI. |