These objects often appear under clouds, off in the distance, in the pioneering “combination prints” of Gustave Le Gray. One of these objects partly titles an 1857 photograph by Robert Howlett in which its creator stands aloof with a top hat and cigar in front of a massive set of chains. Pablo Picasso praised an uncropped photograph of one of these objects taken with the artist’s only glass plate as “working in the same spirit in which I am.” A “spontaneous” photograph of one of these objects exhibited at 291 is divided diagonally by a walkway with roped handholds. That landmark 1907 photograph of one of these objects depicts two levels of richer and poorer travelers. For 10 points, what kind of vehicle is the setting of Alfred Stieglitz’s photograph The Steerage? ■END■
ANSWER: ships [or boats; accept brigs, cargo ships, ocean liners, the SS Great Eastern, or SS Kaiser Wilhelm II] (The second clue refers to Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern.)
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