| Page |
| The Fountain of the Great Lakes | Frontispiece |
| Lorado Taft, Sculptor. |
| The First Step in the Making of a Ship—Laying the “Keel Blocks” | 4 |
| Second Step—Laying the Keel, or Bottom of the Ship, on the “Keel Blocks” | 6 |
| The Growing Ship | 8 |
| Vessel Almost Ready for Launching | 10 |
| A Monster of Steel and Iron Ready to be Launched | 12 |
| Weight 9,500,000 lbs. |
| The Launching | 14 |
| The “Thomas F. Cole,” 11,200 Tons, Being Fitted with Engines and Boilers after her Launching | 16 |
| The “Cole” is the largest ship on the Lakes. Length, 605 feet 5 inches. |
| Her First Trip—Off for the Ore Regions of the North | 18 |
| This Shows Some of the 800,000 Rivets that Go to the Making of a 10,000-Ton Leviathan of the Inland Seas | 22 |
| Ice-Bound. Thirty-two Boats Tied up in the Ice at the Soo | 26 |
| From a Photograph by Lord & Thomas, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. |
| A Network of Tracks Running through the Ore Lands | 28 |
| Captains of the Vessels of the American Steamship Company | 30 |
| The “Montezuma” | 32 |
| The largest wooden ship on fresh water being towed out of the Maumee River, Toledo. |
| A Coal Dock at Superior, Wisconsin | 34 |
| The pile of coal is 1400 feet long and 30 feet high. |
| The Record Load Hauled by One Team out of the Michigan Woods, 20,000 Feet | 36 |
| One Steam Shovel Keeps Three Locomotives and Trains Busy | 38 |
| Steamers at a Modern Ore Unloading Plant at Conneaut | 40 |
| The Main Slip in the Harbour of Conneaut | 42 |
| Conneaut is the second largest ore-receiving port on the Lakes. |
| One of the Huge Open Pits of the Mesaba Range | 44 |
| A Raft of Five Million Pulp Logs on the North Shore of Lake Michigan | 48 |
| Scooping up Ore from the Mahoning Mine at Hibbing | 52 |
| The largest open pit mine in the world. |
| A Mining Town on the Mesaba Range, where a Few Years ago the Deer and Bear Roamed Undisturbed | 54 |
| Harbour View at Conneaut, Ohio, Showing Docks and Machinery | 56 |
| A Steam Shovel at Work | 58 |
| This removes from 4000 to 8000 tons of ore a day. |
| The Old and the New | 62 |
| A modern freight carrier passing one of the old schooners. |
| A Shaft on One of the Ranges | 66 |
| The “North West” | 68 |
| One of the finest passenger steamers on the Great Lakes. |
| The Stop at Tashinoo Park, St. Clair Flats | 70 |
| The Landing at Mackinac Dock, Michigan | 72 |
| Hickory Island at the Mouth of Detroit River | 74 |
| From a Photograph by Manning Studio, Detroit. |
| The “City of Erie” | 76 |
| The fastest steamer on the Lakes, holding a record of 22.93 miles per hour. |
| Little Venice, St. Clair River | 80 |
Showing the type of “Inns,” where people may pass their holidays at small expense.
Courtesy of Northern Steamship Co. |
| A Scene on Belle Isle, Detroit River | |
