c1920s  This very rare photo, taken by a member of the Russell family shows JOSEPH L. RUSSELL at Oswego in the mid-Twenties. At left is the Erie Canal steam barge "M. G. PHELPS". Courtesy of Capt. John Leonard

  c1936  TURRET CAPE, during her short career as a barge, unloads flour at Pier 4, Toronto. Photo, probably taken in 1936, illustrates shape of a turret's harbour deck.

  1915  Stereoview of Montreal Harbour 10625- The Wharves, Montreal Canada; Lat. 45 N; Long. 74 W; Montreal is the great commercial center of the Dominion of Canada. It is situated on the north side of the St. Lawrence River and is 625 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. It is the leading port for the...

  c 1907  Black and white postcard of the Kingston waterfront featuring a concrete grain elevator. Clustered around the elevator and the neighbouring wharf are schooners, barges, tugs and a larger freighter. At the head of the wharf a barge is either under construction or being repaired. A barge is being...

  c 1910  Coloured postcard of the industrial portion of Montreal near the bottom of the Lachine Canal featuring the Grand Trunk grain elevator, a long line of railway cars. Lumber is piled along the wharf below the lock. A number of barges, some filled with coal or dredgin spoil lie in the lower right of...

    Coloured postcard showing a crowded Montreal harbour. Two ocean-going vessels, probably of the Allan Line lie on the further side of the basin. Four or five steamboats and unpowered barges are tied up abreast. One is the CONDOR. Coloured postcard. Divided back "Montreal Harbor looking East,...

  c 1907  Coloured postcard of a moolit Port Hope harbour. One of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation steamboats is heavily lit up on the outside of the pier. A tugboat and barge (possibly carrying coal or dredge spoil is inside the pier. A third vessel, possibly a dredge is to the lower left. The...

  c 1910  Coloured postcard of a busy harbour scene in Buffalo, New York in the early 1890s. The postcard probably dates from a decade later. In the foreground on the left hand side is the WILLIAM H. BARNUM of Buffalo which sank off Mackinaw City in the spring of 1894. At least eight other vessels are in...

  c1870  Stereoview of the Oswego harbour from the upper bridge. In the centre of the harbour is a two masted schooner. The sail of another schooner is hanging to dry beyond the railroad trestle. There are a number of barges along the far side of the harbour. E. H. T. Anthony & Co., 591 Broadway, New...

  c 1873  Photograph of the steam barge D.R. VAN ALLEN probably at Oswego Used to illustrate Ivan S. Brookes, Hamilton Harbor, 1826-1901 .

  c 1905  Black and white postcard of Port Hope harbour. One of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation steamboats is heavily lit up on the outside of the pier. A tugboat and barge (possibly carrying coal or dredge spoil is inside the pier. A third vessel is the government dredge NIPISSING. The original...

  c 1916  Stereoview of Buffalo harbour and the western terminus of the Erie Canal. A wide array of barrels is various conditions dominates the foreground. Wooden and steel lakers stand by the grain elevators. A boom loads barrels into an Erie canal barge. 48 6835 -- Mouth of Erie Canal, Buffalo, N....

  c1890  Stereoview of a two masted schooner and tugboat in Buffalo harbour and the western terminus of the Erie Canal. "331. Vessel in Lock, Erie Canal, Buffalo, N. Y." "Union View Co, Publishers, Rochester, N. Y." "Buffalo, N. Y."

  1885  Engraving of the city of Buffalo, NY including two steamboats, two tugs and a number of Erie Canal barges. A sail loft is among the buildings at the edge of the canal. Illustration from the article by Jane Meade Welch, "The City Of Buffalo," Harper's Monthly, July 1885, p. 195 City of Buffalo

  1885  Engraving of the grain elevators at Buffalo, NY with a schooner under towand a steamboat and barge in the harbour at the entrance to the Erie Canal. Illustration from the article by Jane Meade Welch, "The City Of Buffalo," Harper's Monthly, July 1885, p. 197 Among the Elevators From a photograph...

  1885  Engraving of the wharves of Buffalo, NY. Illustration from the article by Jane Meade Welch, "The City Of Buffalo," Harper's Monthly, July 1885, p. 199 Along the wharves

  1885  Engraving of the Erie Canal in Buffalo with people aboard the barges lining the canal. Illustration from the article by Jane Meade Welch, "The City Of Buffalo," Harper's Monthly, July 1885, p. 208 On the Canal

  1886  Engraving of the view from the Viaduct over the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, OH. A variety of barges and sailing craft can be seen in the river Illustration from the article by Edmund Kirke, "The City Of Cleveland," Harper's Monthly, March 1886, p. 561 View from the Viaduct

  1912  Panoramic photograph of the Thousand Island. A number of steam yachts can be seen to the left. A tug tows a barge down river.

  1884  Schooners under tow in the Chicago River, along with steamboats and barges. Illustration from History of Chicago from the Earliest Period to the Present Time in three volumes by A. T. Andreas (Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1884)

  1899  Steel Canal Barges and tow on Erie Canal Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

  1899  Three tugs raising the water in the lock, by the working of their wheels, to lift a barge too deeply loaded. Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

  1893  Drawing of the first club house of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto. Published in John Ross Robertson, Landmarks of Toronto: A Collection of Historical Sketches of the Old Town of York From 1792 until 1833, and of Toronto From 1834 to 1895 [volume 2] , Toronto: J. Ross Roberston, 1896....

  c 1930  Postcard of three large freighters tied up in the Welland Canal. A fourth freighter can be seen in the middle distance. In the foreground is a Canadian Dredge & Dock tug and barge. First freighter in line Paterson's FORT WILLDOC and the following two have Misener/Colonial steamship stacks....

    Black and white photograph of the tug MARY I. ROBERTSON, with a scow and sawmill in the background From William Lafferty: Mary I. Robertson 131187. Single screw wooden steam tug built 1914 at Glen Ross, Ontario, by Fred A. Robertson & Co. for Fred Ashton Robertson ("contractor") and Paul Joseph...

  c 1865 -1880  Black and white stereoview of Oswego harbour featuring, from left to right, the Continental Elevator, C. Ames & Co.'s Reciprocity Elevator, and Howlett Gardner & Co.'s Lake Ontario Mills. Two unidentified two-masted schooners lie unloading into the elevators. The hull of a third vessel, possibly...

  c1900  Magic lantern slide of a major grain elevator with a large fleet of Erie canal barges in the foreground. On the other side of the elevator is a long line of freight cars. Handwritten: "20 Grain Elevator N.Y.C." Printed: "T. H. McAllister Co., Manufacturing Opticians, 49 Nassau St., N. Y."

  c1850s  Lithograph of Oswego harbor from the the 1850s. A number of carriages and wagons cross the bridge. One canal barge is being towed upstream while others lie alongside the canal banks. Two steam tug tow barges around the harbour. A number of schooners and brigs dry their sails. To the left of the...

  1890  Photograph of Oswego harbor from the bridge in 1890. A number of schooners can be seen lining the western (left) side of the harbour, along with a couple of tugs. Beside them can be seen the North-western Elevator and a building labelled Lehigh Valley Coal. Timber lines the wharves. In the...

  c1870s  Black and white photograph of a view of Oswego Harbor looking west, 1870s, lower bridge in foreground. At that time the clock was still on the Market House. Note the hermaphrodite brig. (Square rigger rare on the lakes). A ceremonial arch has been built on the bridge. A collection of idlers look...

  c1880  Barge Saginaw East lying at the wooden government wharf in Cleveland, OH Pirated view. "Government Pier, Cleveland" "Stereoviews of New York City Central Park, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis San Francisco Cincinnati Buffalo Cleveland Pittsburgh Detroit Hartford...

  c1910  Real photo postcard of the shipyard in Sorel, QU complete with dredges and tugs. In the middle distance is one of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation steamboats in winter quarters (or there for repair) "Shipyard, Chautier de Sorel, Que"

  1883  ex WILLIAM P. FESSENDEN, JOHN SHERMAN,

  1881  ex Prop. PITTSBURG

  1936  ex CITY OF MACKINAC, STATE OF NEW YORK, FLORIDA,

  1871  ex prop. EQUATOR,

  1878  ex CANTIN, EAST

  1905  ex PENNSYLVANIA, OWANA, ERIE, T.A. IVEY

  1872  ex COMET, PLANTER

  1882  ex BRIDGEWATER