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      Panoramic photograph of the Buffalo waterfront. Two passenger vessels are in the center slip. A laker unloads to the right.

      Panoramic photograph of the Saint Clair River at the entrance from Lake Huron

      Panoramic photograph of a laker unloading a one of the major new concrete grain elevators on the Buffalo waterfront.

      Panoramic photograph of the Duluth, MN waterfront with a steamboat and schooner moored there.

      Panoramic photograph of the Duluth, MN waterfront.

      Panoramic photograph of three lakers unloading coal on the Duluth, MN waterfront.

      Panoramic photograph of the waterfront of Mackinac Island showing a range of houses, churches, hotels and the fort above wharves on the Straits of Mackinac.

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 Orr, J. W., Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), 7 Jun 1856     Steamer "Western World," Capt. J. H. Barker, of the Michigan Central Railroad Line, between Buffalo and Detroit

 Fisher, Rob, The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord (St. John's, NL), Oct 2011, 359-376     The Torrance family's correspondence in the collection of papers by Robert M. Powell and his family at Library and Archives Canada must be recognized for his discussion of the steamboats of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes in the 1830s and 1840s. This recently discovered cache of letters ...

      Complete view of Toronto harbour showing the eastern and western entrances

      Panoramic view of the Superior Ship Yards, West Superior, WI. with upwards of twenty lakers in port or under construction. Two whalebacks are visible at the extreme left and right of the photograph.

      Panoramic view of the Pioneer Steamship Company laker D. R. HANNA unloading at the Baltimore & Ohio grain elevators at West Fairport, OH

      Panoramic photograph of the river waterfront in Detroit. Five large ships are moored along the wharves with a sixth underway and disappearing out of the picture to the right.

      Engraving of the steamboat CHICORA in Collingwood harbour in 1870, from which she embarked troops for the Red River Expedition

      Looking forward from the upper deck of the CHICORA on the Red River Expedition in 1870

      "City of Kingston, Canada West -- The Royal Dock Yards, and Naval and Military Store Houses."

      "Town of Mackinac, on Lake Huron, State of Michigan"

      "Burning of the Lake Erie Steamer Northern Indiana"

      "Explosion of the Propeller Inkermann, at Browne's Wharf, Toronto, C. W., May 29, 1857"