DESCRIPTION: Original 1990 blueprint-style decorative pictorial map of Lake Michigan devoted to the remarkable concentration of shipwrecks lying beneath its waters. An unusually detailed late twentieth-century pictorial record of Lake Michigan's maritime history, combining cartography, shipwreck history, lighthouse imagery, and Great Lakes folklore.
The lake is densely populated with individually identified vessels, many accompanied by their dates and circumstances of loss, illustrating more than three centuries of maritime disasters involving schooners, steamships, freighters, passenger vessels, and other craft.
The map is surrounded by nautical imagery and historical vignettes highlighting notable wrecks and legends of Lake Michigan, including the Griffin of 1679, the passenger liner Eastland, the "Christmas Tree Ship" Rouse Simmons, the Alpena, and accounts of aircraft and vessels that disappeared on the lake. Prominent Lake Michigan lighthouses are also illustrated, including White Shoal, Potawatomi, Point Betsie, North Point, Wind Point, Grand Haven, and Old Michigan City. A ship legend identifies the different vessel types represented on the map.
Published by Cook & Cook Ltd. of St. Marie, Michigan, with a 1989 copyright date and a 1990 revised edition.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1990
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Lake Michigan
CONDITION: Very Good.
Rolled.
COLORING: Process
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 25
" x
28 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION:
PRICE: $195
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