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Ship-building near Dorchester, NS
Alexander HendersonAbout / vers 1865
McCord Stewart Museum
Montreal, Canada
In a land of trees crisscrossed with waterways and bounded by two oceans, shipbuilding played a large role in economic development before the advent of the railway. In the shipyard shown here, logs were carried by water right up to the hull under construction.
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- Title: Ship-building near Dorchester, NS
- Creator Lifespan: 1831/1913
- Date: About / vers 1865
- Type: Photographie, Photograph
- Titre: Construction navale près de Dorchester, N.-É.
- Photographer: Alexander Henderson
- Description: Dans un pays forestier traversé de cours d'eau et bordé par deux océans, les chantiers navals ont grandement contribué au développement économique avant l'avènement des chemins de fer. Voici un chantier où les troncs d'arbres arrivent au pied de la coque en construction.
- Credit line: Gift of Stanley G. Triggs, Don de Stanley G. Triggs
- Rights: http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/orders/conditions/
- External Link: http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/MP-0000.1828.51.89
- Medium: Silver salts on paper mounted on card - Albumen process, Sels d'argent sur papier monté sur carton - Papier albuminé
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