Detroit Historical Society

    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 weather on a lake. Other sailing ships can be seen

    One framed watercolor painting of the passenger steamship, SS Normac, of the Owen Sound Transportation Company. The painting shows a port side bow view of the ship which is moored at a dock in Manito

    The previous club house burned in 1901. Chittenden was hired as architect for the new club house, built in 1902. It is supposed that this illustration was part of his proposal for the new building.

    This oil painting of the steamer "A.A. Parker" towing barge "B.W. Parker" is signed at the viewer's lower right: "S.A. Whipple, 1892". Both ships have green wooden hulls and three masts. Shown on the

    This oil painting is of the JOHN WESLEY sailed by Capt. J. Hutton. The ship was owned by Parker Bros. The painting is signed "S.A. Whipple, 1880" in the viewer's lower left corner. The three masted s

    Canvas 20" x 34, in 2 3/4" wide frame

    framed: 20 1/2" x 26 1/2"

    framed: 44" x 30"

    This watercolor painting is an interior view of the grand salon of the steamer GREATER DETROIT which was built in 1924 and decorated by W. & J. Sloan Co. of New York.

    painting: 17 1/8" x 23 1/2" frame: 24" x 30"

    Oil painting titled "Labor Day Cruise" by Roy Pauli; shows the Bob-Lo Boat COLUMBIA going under the Ambassador Bridge at sunset with the Detroit skyline in the background; in elaborate gold frame.

    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

    This oil painting of the steamer Edwin F. Holmes, 1904, is unsigned but attributed to Antonio Jacobson. It shows a port side view of the black freighter with white forecastle and cabins, a black stac

    This oil painting depicts the catboat-rigged yacht Wayward sailing on a choppy sea in what appears to be a sailboat race. Two gaff-rigged sloops trail the catboat on the same tack, with a steam yacht

    This painting, titled "The Steamer Arrow Passing the Grosse Ile Beacon," shows the vessel in 1853. It was illustrated by Robert Hopkin a decade after his arrival from Scotland, and the same year he o

    This oil painting, entitled "Building the Breakwater," is by Detroit artist Robert Hopkin, and appears to show a coffer dam and timber-and-tackle gantries employed in building Chicago’s breakwall int

    This watercolor illustrates two vessels running before a storm in open water. The nearest is a two-masted scow schooner. Behind that is a smaller vessel with a single, gaff-rigged mainsail. The heavy

    This oil-on-canvas painting, signed by M.S. Geissler, illustrates the passenger steamships Greater Buffalo and Greater Detroit, of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company. The painting shows port

    A tug (name appears to be “Douglas”), white with red and green stripes, is towing a barkentine with sails furled. Smoke from the tug obscures the vessel’s hull. The tow is passing two smaller schoone

    This etched tin advertising sign for the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company features an image of the passenger steamer City of Alpena. Gold text at the bottom advertises, "Daily Between D