Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Moonlight on the Harbour, Port Hope, Canada

Description
Media Type
Image
Item Type
Postcards
Description
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 original picture was photographed from the top of the pier light in the daytime.
Notes
Card is in poor condition having been pasted in an album or scrapbook. Postmarked "Port Hope, [] Jul 07" on back. Second indistinct postal marking from Rochester on the front. Publisher is inferred from the JV in a circle with the card number on the front of the card. The particular irony of this picture is that the original postcard shows a daylight scene, more appropriate to the action in the harbour. The colouring was used to change it to a night scene.
Inscriptions
"Moonlight on the Harbour, Port Hope, Canada" "102,071"
Reverse: damaged from having been glued in scrapbook
Publisher
[Valentine & Sons]
Place of Publication
[Montreal and Toronto]
Date of Original
c 1907
Dimensions
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 8.7 cm
Subject(s)
Barges
Dredges
Piers & wharves
Railroad bridges
Steamboats
Tugboats
Nipissing (dredge)
Local identifier
58
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Port Hope
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 43.95012 Longitude: -78.29953
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Moonlight on the Harbour, Port Hope, Canada


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 original picture was photographed from the top of the pier light in the daytime.