The Greater Detroit tows her sister ship, the Greater Buffalo.

Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

Among the final moments of the Greater Detroit and Eastern States on Dec. 12, 1956, on their way to being burned in Lake St. Clair.

Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

The Greater Detroit departs in June 1933.

Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

The Greater Detroit in June 1933

Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

A crowd on the Greater Detroit in 1933

Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

The Greater Detroit in April 1946

Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

The Greater Detroit, in white, with her smaller fleet mate the Eastern States, in 1951

Photo from the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

In 1950, the Greater Detroit was painted white. It was originally black.

Photo from the Detroit Free Press archives

The Greater Detroit was painted white in 1950, as most steamers were.

Photo from the Detroit Free Press archives

The Greater Detroit at Harbor Springs in its white paint scheme.

Photo from Virgil D. Haynes

The Greater Detroit in its white paint scheme.

Photo from Richard Braun

The Greater Detroit is launched Sept. 15, 1923, by American Ship Building Co. at Lorain, Ohio

Courtesy of Great Lakes Maritime Institute

The Greater Detroit docking at Buffalo, N.Y.

Photo from a D&C Navigation promotional album

The Greater Detroit under way

Photo by unknown photographer from HistoricDetroit.org Collection

The Greater Detroit and Eastern States tied up as demolition is under way for the new civic center March 5, 1951.

Photo from the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library