Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Kingston City, Modern Elevator in foreground

Description
Media Type
Image
Item Type
Postcards
Description
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 loaded from the grain elevator while the larger freighter is being unloaded.
Notes
Divided back. Postally unused.
Inscriptions
"Kingston City, Modern Elevator in foreground" "600,311"
Reverse: "U.P.S. Montreal, Series No. 1029"
Publisher
U. P. S.
Place of Publication
Montreal
Date of Original
c 1907
Dimensions
Width: 13.9 cm
Height: 8.8 cm
Subject(s)
Barges
Boat & ship industry
Grain elevators
Piers & wharves
Tugboats
Schooners
Local identifier
267
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
Copyright Statement
Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
Contact
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Website:
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Kingston City, Modern Elevator in foreground


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 loaded from the grain elevator while the larger freighter is being unloaded.