Walter Cowles photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: GLMS-0066

Collection Organization

The collection is composed of 355 black and white photos and 318 black and white negatives of Great Lakes vessels. The bulk of the photos in the collection were taken from 1947 to 1950, between Cowles’ return from the Navy and promotion to Chief Hull Draftsman at American Ship Building Company.

An item-level inventory of the photographs and negatives is linked to this finding aid in the External Documents section.

Vessel Photographs, A-Z, 1930-1966

 File – Box 1, Item: 1-657
Dates
Creation: 1930-1966

Autobiographical information; contextual information for photographs

 File – Box 2