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    An undated (but not likely contemporary) watercolour of the WALK-IN-THE-WATER, which has "Detroit" painted on the paddle box under the steamboat's name. As Detroit was never her port of hail, it is a

    Pen & ink over blue pencil. Laid down on scrapbook page

   

    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 steamboat on the upper lakes. Only three years in service

    Engraving of the steamer Walk-in-the-water published in John Ross Robertson, Landmarks of Toronto: A Collection of Historical Sketches of the Old Town of York From 1792 until 1833, and of Toronto Fro

    The foreground shows the Canadian shoreline with several people standing, sitting, and playing near the Detroit River. The steamship Walk-in-the-Water is shown sailing down the river, along with seve

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. S. S. WALK-IN-THE-WATER, Lake Erie, 1818 This United States registered vessel was the first steam-driven vessel to navigate on the upper Great Lake

    Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels, : , 1895, page 24

    Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels,1895, page 25

    Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899.

    Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899.