17 Apr 1973  EDWARD S. KENDRICK is being towed downbound in the Welland Canal north of Allanburg on April 17, 1973

  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

  c1908  Coloured postcard of the Yonge Street wharves in Toronto. Two passenger steamboats and a tugboat lie at the docks. A crowd of passengers line the main wharf. Divided back. Postmarked "Toronto, ONT, 31 Aug 1908 1:30 pm" "Yonge Street Dock, Toronto" "102,122" Reverse: "Valentine & Sons' Publishing...

  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 1915  Tinted postcard in a frame of the waterfront of Trenton, Ont. A small tug appears in the right middleground. In the background is a three-masted schooner. Other small row boats and sailboats can be found in the middle along with a number of boat houses. Divided back. Postally unused "In the...

  1898  Coloured stereoview of two tugboats and a schooner in the Chicago River about 1898. "201. Chicago River on a Foggy Morning. Copyright, 1898 by T. W. Ingersoll" Reverse: "No. 201. Chicago River on a Foggy Morning. Joliet and Marquette in 1673 discovered the fact that the Indians used the...

  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...

  c 1910  Coloured postcard of a collection of tugboats and wooden canallers in the Welland Canal at Port Colborne as the ice begins to break up in the early spring. Divided back. Postmarked "Port Colborne, Ont. 19 Jul 11" "Winter on Welland Canal at Port Colborne, Canada" Reverse: "326" "Made in Germany"...

  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 1900  Stereoview of propeller and two tugboats, one towing a three-masted schooner, in the Chicago River about 1900. "River and Shipping, Chicago." "Stereoviews of New York City Central Park, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Cleveland,...

  c 1900  Stereoview of propeller and two tugboats in the Chicago River about 1900. In the distance is a steamboat with a bishops arch. Another, probably earlier, variation on this view was published by "Gates Bros. Publishers, Chicago" and titled "27 Chicago River, east from La Salle-st." "River View,...

  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."

  c 1945  Black and white real photo postcard of the tugboat T. J. SCOTT and J. Harrison & Sons' small freighter NORTHERN. At the right of the card is the stern of the Mohawk Navigation Company's CAPTAIN C. D. SECORD (originally the American Laker CHARLES R. VAN HISE, 1900) The photograph likely dates from...

  1900  Stereoview of two whalebacks in the canal at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. The one on the left appears to be the JAMES B. COLGATE of Duluth. The large whaleback on the right is one of the numbered barges. Both of them are running light as they are upbound. The tug in the lock with them is the...

  c 1908  Coloured postcard of tugs and other ships in Owen Sound harbour. Warehouses in the picture include "Bishop & Paulin" and "McLaughlan's & Warehouse" Divided back postcard. Postmarked "Owen Sound, Ont, 12 Aug 1908 7 pm". Sent to Miss M. Westlake, West Toronto "Owen Sound Harbour"

  c 1900  Stereoview of at least four tugboats and three schooners in the Chicago River about 1900. Across the river is a grain elevator and a steel swing bridge. "Chicago River, Shipping &c. Chicago" "Picturesque American Popular G Series"

  c1907-08  Real photo postcard of the Deseronto Navigation Company fleet in winter layup at Deseronto, probably in 1908. Among the ships in port are the RELIANCE and the ELLA ROSS. There are two tugs and another smaller propeller also in layup. A relatively unpopular subject for postcards, this image of...

  c1908  Coloured postcard of the Yonge Street wharf in Toronto with a crowd disembarking from the CHIPPEWA. The sign on the building at the base of the pier say Yonge St. Wharf, S. F. Freeland. R. & O. N. Co. Lessees" Divided back. Postally used but mark indistinct. "Yonge Street Dock, Toronto"...

  c1906  Black and White postcard of the Canadian Towing & Wrecking Company ice breaking tug JAMES WHALEN in the waters of Lake Superior off Port Arthur. Divided back. Postmarked Fort William, ON 13 Oct 1906 "Ice-breaking tug "Whalen" breaking through 32 inches of ice"

  1907  Black and white postcard of the Sincennes McNaughton tug fleet and the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company fleets at Sorel, QU. Tfour people in two small craft are out in the stream. Both fleets wintered at Sorel so this may be either a late fall or, more likely, a spring fitout image....

  1907  Black and white postcard of the Sincennes McNaughton tug fleet and the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company fleets at Sorel, QU. The BERTHIER can be identified immediately behind the three decked passenger steamboat at the far right side of the image. Both fleets wintered at Sorel so this may...

  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 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

  1881  Vessels on the Menominee River, Milwaukee, WI Illustration from the article by Ernest Ingersoll, "Milwaukee," Harper's Monthly, April 1881, p. 705 Down the river from the Grand Avenue Bridge

  1915  Panoramic photograph of the aftermath of the wreck of the EASTLAND. A number of steam yachts and tugs lie alongside the wreck. This picture was copyrighted five days after the disaster on 24 July 1915 The Wreck of the Eastland

  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

  1899  A whaleback towing a whaleback barge Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899. "A whaleback tow"

  1899  The KEYSTONE and her tow, the JOSEPH G. MASTEN ashore on Twin River Point, WI. The KEYSTONE was salvaged. The MASTEN sank as she was pulled into deeper water. Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899. "Wrecking Scene on Lake...

  1893  A sketch of the tug W. T. ROBB, which was involed in the Fenian troubles off Fort Erie, June 1866. Illustration from Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto, vol. 2, Toronto: J. Ross Robertson, 1896.

  Oct 1871  Stereoview of three or four tugboats, and three sailing vessels among the burned wharves and warehouses lining the North branch of the Chicago River shortly after the fire on 8-9 Oct 1871. "Chicago -- Ruins" "No. 42 -- On North Branch" "Andrew & Carson, Hillsdale, Mich." Reverse: "From E. H....

  c1907  Coloured postcard of the shipyards and dry dock at Midland, ON "Ship Yards and Dry Dock, Midland, Ont., Can." Reverse: "No. 658 Published by J. W. Bald, Midland, Ont., Can."

  c1920  Real photo of Tobermory Harbour. A tugboat leaves Big Tub past the harbour lighthouse. A freight and barge sit in the harbour. "Tobermory Harbour" "MacDonald Photo" "373"

  1944  Black and white photograph of the tugboat T. J. SCOTT locked up in ice at the Scott dock at the foot of Brock Street, Sault Sainte Marie, ON in 1944.

  1944  Black and white photograph of the tugboat T. J. SCOTT

  c1903  Black and white postcard of the shipyard at Sorel, QU, on the Richelieu River. Three vessels are on the ways in various stages of construction or repair. Undivided back. Postally unused "1. -- Chantier de constructions navales á SOREL (P.Q.)" "Desjardins"