Old time Welland Canal schooner – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Old time Welland Canal schooner comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Old time Welland Canal schooner
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A name painted on the hull, "J. Duvall," and a notation that the scene may be in Ontario set this view apart from other schooner pictures on the board. The Welland Canal, cut across the Niagara Peninsula to link Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, let lake vessels bypass Niagara Falls, and schooners of this size carried grain, coal, and lumber through its locks. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 by 10 inch glass plate negative around 1905, sold views of American and Canadian scenery and commerce, so the picture also documents how working lake craft looked at the time.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | J. Duvall" on vessel. Possibly in Ontario. "2940 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021867. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 800 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64907 |
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