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    Looking forward from the upper deck of the CHICORA on the Red River Expedition in 1870

    Engraving of the steamboat CHICORA in Collingwood harbour in 1870, from which she embarked troops for the Red River Expedition

   

    Woodcut engraving of the port of Oswego in the winter of 1856. From the linked article: "In this sketch, a part of Fort Ontario is seen in the distance. At the right hand is a monster store-house, ca

    The original ambrotype is featured in Gerald T. Girvin, "The Maple Leaf Story Prior to the Civil War", in Keith V. Holland et al., eds., The Maple Leaf: An Extraordinary American Civil War Shipwreck,

    William Armstrong was both civil engineer, artist and photographer, being a member of one of Toronto's early photographic companies. His career is well-documented in Henry G. Campbell, Early Days on

Orr, J. W., Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (New York, NY), 7 Jun 1856     Woodcut engraving of the Steamer "Western World," Capt. J. H. Barker, of the Michigan Central Railroad Line, between Buffalo and Detroit.

    Detail from an 1885 manifest

Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically... (Detroit, MI)     Wooden engraving of the Goodrich Transportation Company steamboat CHICAGO signed "Manz Chicago" used to illustrate the company's 1884 advertisement for passenger services between Chicago and Milwauke

Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically... (Detroit, MI)     While the volume was published in 1884, the tug ERIE BELLE exploded on 21 Nov 1883 in Kincardine while salvaging the schooner CARTER. This specific illustration was treated as a generic one in advert

Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically... (Detroit, MI)     Generic wooden engraving of a propeller-driven steamboat with an arch from the 1880s by A. Zeese & Company of Chicago for use in advertisements

Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically... (Detroit, MI)     Generic wooden engraving of a sidewheel, paddlewheeled steamboat used in advertisements

Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically... (Detroit, MI)     This is linked to an advertisement for the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company which never owned a vessel of this type.

   

   

   

   

    The once famous steamer "Sultana," a view of which we present, will long be remembered by the old settlers of Buffalo and travellers by the Lakes, as one of the fast and popular Buffalo and Chicago l

Rosenburg, Gleason's Pictorial Companion, 11 Dec 1852, p. 373    

Barry, G. A., Ballou's Pictorial, 24 Mar 1855