Photograph of Buffalo, looking westward, showing the city's harbor, May 13, 1922

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Date

May 13, 1922

Description

Photograph of Buffalo, looking westward, showing the city's harbor, May 13, 1922. The canal is in the foreground in the bottom third of the photograph. A low bridge takes a main road across the canal; the canal's stonework can be seen at bottom right. The canal runs close to many grain elevators, seen in the center of the photograph. Large vessels wait to unload cargo or take it on for voyages across the Great Lakes. At the time this photograph was taken, canal boats navigated the Niagara River between the Barge Canal at Tonawanda and the Erie Canal Basin at Buffalo. The section of the canal pictured here was filled in shortly after this photograph was taken.

Type

Photograph

Region

Western New York, New York State, United States

Era

Industrialization, Turn of the Century and WWI

Topic

Erie Canal, Industry, Labor

Repository

New York State Archives

Identifier

17672-13 (810)

Source

New York State Archives.

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