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AtomThis watercolor; "A Perspective of the Detroit Boat Club" is by Alpheus Williams Chittenden, architect. It is unsigned and is in a narrow plain gold ...
One framed watercolor painting of the passenger steamship, SS Normac, of the Owen Sound Transportation Company. The painting shows a port side bow ...
One color print of a watercolor painting of the Schooner Mary Morton. The print shows a port side view of the ship which is under full sail in fair ...
One framed color lithograph of the "Tug NIAGARA." The print shows a port side view of the vessel which is underway in fair weather. Printed text at ...
This color lithograph shows the whaleback passenger propeller Christopher Columbus in her early years. The poster was used as a promotional tool ...
This is a black and white charcoal drawing of the steamboat " The Forest Queen. " The boat is shown on choppy water. There is a center smoke-stack ...
This is a black and white pencil drawing titled " All In A Day's Work" by Vernon Bailey. It shows a freighter at a dock being built. On the right is ...
Print of Seth Arca Whipple's best-known work, the "Tug Champion with Eight Vessels in Tow" in the Detroit River. Similar in detail to a watercolor ...
The small steamer Island Queen was built for Datus Kelley in 1855 by Daniel Dibble on Kelley's Island in Lake Erie. She initially ran from Sandusky, ...
One watercolor painting of the passenger steamship, CITY of SOUTH HAVEN. Built at Craig Shipbuilding Co. in Toledo for Dunkley-Williams Co. of ...
One watercolor painting of the tugboat, Sweepstakes. The painting shows a port side view of the tugboat which is underway in fair weather on a lake. ...
This watercolor of the motor yacht YOREDA (1929) was painted by the donor, Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. for the Dossin Great Lakes Museum's ...
Lithograph of the passenger steamer TASHMOO, from a painting by Jim Clary about 1974. Vessel is seen steaming upbound in the St. Clair River, passing ...
The Put-In-Bay was designed by Frank Kirby and launched in 1911 at the Wyandotte yards of the Detroit Shipbuilding Company. It ran daily passenger ...
This dynamic watercolor of the steamer Sheboygan was painted by June Perry, artist, diver, and wife of maritime historian C. Patrick Labadie. It is ...
One framed reproduction print of a watercolor painting entitled "A View of Detroit and the Straits, Taken from the Huron Church, June 22nd 1804." ...
This watercolor painting is an interior view of the grand salon of the steamer GREATER DETROIT which was launched in 1924, with interior design by ...
One framed, limited edition (169/250) color reproduction print of a painting of the bulk carrier, SS EDMUND FITZGERALD, of the Columbia ...
One framed, limited edition (400/750) color reproduction print of a painting of the passenger steamship, SS CITY OF DETROIT III, of the Detroit and ...
One color lithograph of the sidewheel passenger steamship, SS CITY of CLEVELAND III. The print shows a port side bow view of the ship which is ...
Color lithograph from a Seth Arca Whipple painting of the passenger steamer CITY OF CLEVELAND (II); twin stacks set athwartship ; broadside view of ...
Built as the Grace McMillan in 1879, this ship was an early Frank E. Kirby vessel constructed by the Detroit Dry Dock Company. In 1900, she was sold ...
Titled "The Wreck of the Steamer WALK-IN-THE-WATER, Nov. 1, 1821,” this oil-on-wood work is the only known painting contemporary to the first ...
The wooden steam propeller Atlantic was built in Cleveland in 1863, and over a long career served on all the Great Lakes. At the time this painting ...
This image of the steam-powered freighter Alex B. Uhrig is attributed to artist L. Schmitt. Originally built as the Centurion by F.W. Wheelers in ...
This painting is of the steamer Cliffs Victory. The ship is painted in Cleveland Cliff's livery of black and soft green. Originally built in ...
This oil painting depicts the steam freighter Coralia navigating a river toward an industrial complex, likely steel mills. The vessel was built at ...
This oil painting illustrates the two-masted schooner Columbian under a full press of canvas. The vessel was launched at the yard of W.H. Wolf at ...
This oil painting of the propeller Owen shows the vessel tied up at pier, apparently loading stone. Listed as a steam barge, the Owen is a type of ...
This waterfront view of Buffalo Harbor was painted by Howard Sprague, likely in the early 1890s, when he was in his 20s. The steamer departing could ...
This unusual work by Seth Arca Whipple was painted on a wooden artist’s palette, and illustrates an unnamed, generic package freighter of the period. ...
Artist Leo V. Kuschel was popular for evocative image of ships and lighthouses. This rather whimsical oil study, dated 1972, shows salvage vessels ...
This painting of the Detroit waterfront was created by Gordon P. Bugbee in 1965 at the age of 31. It shows the excursion steamer Tashmoo, the ferry ...
This image of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald shows a side view of the vessel running light in modest seas. A white tugboat is in the background. While ...
This portrait of William Livingstone was discovered in the DHS collection in 2006. While beautifully executed, there is no indication of the ...
This oil painting depicts the D&C line’s Greater Buffalo and is signed “C.A. McCormack.” The artist was chief engineer of the ship in 1942, prior to ...
This acrylic painting of the "Windsor Train Barge - Loaded" shows a view of a railroad car ferry crossing the Detroit River. The pilot house on the ...
