Robert K. LaPorte photograph collection

Collection

Identifier: GLMS-0073

Staff Only

Collection Overview

Abstract

This collection is composed of 58 black and white photos of Great Lakes vessels. These 8 x 10 photos were taken at Indiana Harbor, Indiana in the early 1950s.

Dates

Creation: circa 1950-1951

Extent

.33 Cubic Feet (1 half legal manuscript box)

Creator

LaPorte, Robert K. (Person)

Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of 58 black and white photos of Great Lakes vessels. These 8 x 10 photos were taken at Indiana Harbor, Indiana in the early 1950s. Each of the photos was taken by Robert K. LaPorte on a 4 x 5 Speed Graphic Camera equipped with a 127mm f/4.7 Kodak Ektar lense mounted in a Supermatic X shutter.

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Biographical Sketch

Robert K. Laporte, a project engineer at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Syracuse, New York at the time of this collection’s donation, began his career as a naval engineer in the early 1950s. The bulk of donated photos were taken during the summers before and after LaPorte’s second year of college, as a cadet engineer aboard the JOSEPH BLOCK in 1950 and the E.J. BLOCK in 1951.

Conditions Governing Access

No known access restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

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