Centennial: Steaming Through the American Century
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Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin’s staff photographer, Chris Winters, spent five years creating a vivid record of life aboard the venerable Great Lakes steamboat S.S. St. Marys Challenger as she approached the centennial anniversary of her maiden voyage in 2006. A frequent visitor to Milwaukee’s harbor, and reportedly the oldest operational freight ship in the world, the Challenger began her remarkable fresh water career on the Great Lakes on April 28, 1906 — six years before the launch of the R.M.S. Titanic.
Granted unprecedented access to the vessel by her owners, Winters set off on a personal quest to record an old way of life in a brand new way by focusing revolutionary digital cameras on this revolutionary machine from another century. On April 28, 2006, the centennial anniversary of her maiden voyage from the Great Lakes Engineering Works, at Detroit, Michigan, the Challenger became the first vessel on the Great Lakes — and quite possibly in the history of seafaring — to eclipse 100 years while still in operational service.
“Centennial: Steaming Through the American Century” is a painstakingly researched, masterfully designed, 240-page hardcover book that contains over 300 contemporary and archival images from the boat’s 107-year history, with particular emphasis on the years leading up to her diamond anniversary.
Granted unprecedented access to the vessel by her owners, Winters set off on a personal quest to record an old way of life in a brand new way by focusing revolutionary digital cameras on this revolutionary machine from another century. On April 28, 2006, the centennial anniversary of her maiden voyage from the Great Lakes Engineering Works, at Detroit, Michigan, the Challenger became the first vessel on the Great Lakes — and quite possibly in the history of seafaring — to eclipse 100 years while still in operational service.
“Centennial: Steaming Through the American Century” is a painstakingly researched, masterfully designed, 240-page hardcover book that contains over 300 contemporary and archival images from the boat’s 107-year history, with particular emphasis on the years leading up to her diamond anniversary.