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[A Busy section of the canal, Buffalo, N.Y.] – Historic Reproduction

[A Busy section of the canal, Buffalo, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[A Busy section of the canal, Buffalo, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Buffalo collection.

(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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Cargo ships and grain elevators line this busy stretch of canal in Buffalo, New York, where the Erie Canal met Great Lakes shipping. As the canal's eastern terminus, Buffalo was a major grain-handling port in the early twentieth century, and elevators like these moved wheat from lake freighters into barges and rail cars. The Detroit Publishing Company made this glass negative sometime between 1900 and 1915, and its views of American cities were often used to promote travel. Here the camera records a working waterfront at the height of its activity.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8737" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500215. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCanals. Cargo ships. Grain elevators.United States--New York (State)--Buffalo.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74623

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