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| Title | Steamboat International at Hudson's Bay Company Warehouse at Fort Garry, Man. |
| Date of Original | 1878? |
| Description | A steamboat at a landing ouside a large, multi-storey wooden warehouse. There is a fort in the background, with the stockade, blockhouse and gate clearly visible. There is grass in the foreground. |
| Ordering Information | http://history.nd.gov/archives/whatphotos.html |
| General Subject | Business & Industry
Fur trade
Pioneer Era
Transportation
Water
Military
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Forts & fortifications
Warehouses
Steamboats
Rivers
Blockhouses
Military facilities
Grasses
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| Organization Name | Hudson's Bay Company
International (Steamboat)
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| Location | Fort Garry (Man.)
Assiniboine River (Sask. and Man.)
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| Decade | 1870-1879
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| Item Number | B0320 |
| Format of Original | Photographic prints
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| Transcription | "The 'International' of Grand Forks, second steamboat on the Red, tied up in the Assiniboine at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Garry warehouse, during a period of low water. Credit: Hudson's Bay Company."--Typewritten on paper affixed to back of photograph.
"Library, Hudson's Bay Company, Hudson's Bay House, Winnipeg 1, Manitoba."--Stamped on back of photograph. "Brigdens H.B.C."--Stamped on back of photograph. |
| Notes | Photographer unknown.
Title created by staff. |
| Biography/History | The International was built at Georgetown, Minnesota in 1862. The boat was bought by the Red River Transportation Company and operated on their routes through the 1870s. The International was dismantled in Grand Forks about 1880. |
| Repository Institution | State Historical Society of North Dakota
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| Repository Collection | State Historical Society of North Dakota Photograph Collection B
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| Credit Line | State Historical Society of North Dakota (B0320) |
| Rights Management | Copyright status unknown. |
| Digital ID | shB0320 |
