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| Title | S.S. Minnesota, n.d. |
| Description | The S.S. Minnesota began as the iron-package freighter, the Harlem, in Wyandotte, Michigan in 1888. In 1911, she was converted to a passenger steamer for her new owner, the Chicago & Duluth Transportation Company. It was then that she was christened the Minnesota. In 1913, she was sold to the Lake Michigan Steamship Company, and in 1915 went to the Northern Michigan Transporation Company (as shown here). In 1917, she was sold to the U.S. Shipping Board, cut in half and transported to the East Coast where she served as a hospital ship during World War I. The Minnesota ended her days in 1931, in Jacksonville, Florida after a series of failures as an amusement vessel and a floating hotel. |
| Neighborhood/Street/Venue | Michigan, Lake
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| Subject.TGM1 | Steamboats
Lakes & ponds
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| Subject.LCSH | Minnesota (Steamer) -- Photographs
Inland water transportation -- Michigan, Lake -- History -- Photographs
Steamboats -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Photographs
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| Photographer/Artist/Creator | Kennedy, Robert H.
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| Repository Name | Chicago Public Library Special Collections and Preservation Division
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| Repository Number | PHOTOGRAPH SPE-GLSC 1.1 |
| Collection | Great Lakes Shipping Collection
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| Type | Digital image; |
| Format | image/jpeg; |
| Original format | Photographs
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| Size | 5.6 x 3.3 |
| Subject.LOCAL | Ships
transportation
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