A Tale of Two Giants: Norman, Grecian, and the Great Lakes Steel Revolution
Author(s): Philip A. Hartmeyer
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The middle-late nineteenth century witnessed substantial changes in the Great Lakes maritime landscape. Vertical integration of raw material industries, the birth of steel cities, corporate fleets, and revolutionary shipbuilding and canal technology granted shippers previously-unfathomable commercial opportunity. Sisterships GRECIAN and NORMAN were launched at the leading edge of this shift in maritime commerce. In unrelated events, both steel bulk freighters met their end in the waters of Northeast Michigan, now part of NOAA's Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Comparative archaeological analysis using digital documentation methods will be presented to shed light on these two examples of an iconic Great Lakes vessel class.
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A Tale of Two Giants: Norman, Grecian, and the Great Lakes Steel Revolution. Philip A. Hartmeyer. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457098)
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Keywords
General
Cultural Resource Management
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Great Lakes
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Maritime History
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Photogrammetry
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Middle-Late Nineteenth Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 791