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Title: ARRIVAL OF PILGRIMS BY CANAL BOAT, AURIESVILLE, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [e0643ac1]
Description: Pilgrims, who have just arrived by canal boat, pose for a photograph, with the majority of the men and women standing on the canal boat, some on the grass alongside the canal boat, and some on the bridge in the background. Printing information: card number (14817) [indicated on front side only].
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0643ac1.jpg

Title: Bennett Bros.' Canal Store, Eagle Harbor, New York [front caption, printed in red ink] (1front) [e0687ac1]
Description: Postcard shows canal boats passing under a bridge near a store on the Erie Canal in Eagle Harbor, N.Y.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0687ac1.jpg

Title: Culver Road Bridge over Eastern Wide Waters, Rochester, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [e0689ac1]
Description: Woman and child overlooking Erie canal. Printing Information: card number (2414) [indicated on front only]
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0689ac1.jpg

Title: Down in the Locks, Aqueduct, near Schenectady, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [e0711ac1]
Description: Black & white photograph of a canal boat carrying male and female passengers in the lock near Schenectady, New York. People stand on both sides of the lock looking down. A foot bridge at the end of the lock has two pedestrians crossing. Three snubbing posts are visible. Everyone is wearing hats. A leafy hill with a house atop is in the background.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0711ac1.jpg

Title: Park Ave., Bridge over Barge Canal, Brockport, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [b0026ac1]
Description: Yacht with three women passengers on barge canal with two men standing ashore holding ropes attached to bow. Name of yacht is on stern: (Traveler), ([unintelligible] Clinton .O.) Vertical lift bridge with bridge house in background.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: b0026ac1.jpg

Title: Passengers gathered on boat (1front) [e0604ac1]
Description: Sepia photograph of passengers gathered on boat [presumably] on Erie Canal.
Type: still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0604ac1.jpg

Title: Pub For Stilwell Port Byron NY [handwritten front caption in white ink] (1front) [e0702ac1]
Description: Sepia tone postcard with view of the Erie Canal. The water of the canal dominates the bottom of the postcard. The focus of the card is on the man and woman standing on a small boat. Just above is a small bridge. The words (Canalwalk Boat) are written on the bottom portion of the bridge. There are a few adults and children scattered around the bridge area. Trees and buildings can be seen in the background.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0702ar1.jpg

Title: SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF MARTYRS, AURIESVILLE, NEW YORK. ARRIVAL BY TRAIN AND BARGE ON THE ERIE CANAL. [portion of front caption, printed at left side] (1front) [e0524ac1]
Description: Description--Front: Caption on original reads: "SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF MARTYRS, AURIESVILLE, NEW YORK. ARRIVAL BY TRAIN AND BARGE ON THE ERIE CANAL." Black and white oval image surrounded by blank space around edges of card with title on left side; passengers disembarking from moored canal boat; people on canal bank standing between canal boat and train; hill, partial view of building, utility pole, and trees in background.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0524ac1.jpg

Title: THE AQUEDUCT, MEDINA, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [e0504ac1]
Description: This postcard depicts a picturesque view of the aqueduct in Medina, New York.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0504ac1.jpg

Title: The Hudson River and Iona Island, from Bear Mountain Park. [front caption] (1front) [h0113ac1]
Description: Image depicts a lush, rural scene from within Bear Mountain Park looking downstream of the Hudson River and includes nearby islands in the foreground and distance. There are four women; three collected in a group on one side of the park trail on the side of the river and one kneeling at the opposite side of the park trail a few meters away. A pink sunset above the landmass in the distance colors the sky on the horizon. There is an island situated in the middle of the Hudson River.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: h0113ac1.jpg

Title: VIEW OF DELTA LAKE AND BRIDGE ACROSS BLACK RIVER CANAL, ROME, N.Y. (1front) [k0006ac1]
Description: A color postcard showing a scene of three women in dresses and hats on a dirt road who have just walked over a bridge across the Black River Canal. They are surrounded by trees and grasses that sit atop [presumably] two cliffs on either side of the road. In the background is a panoramic view of Delta Lake, its coastline and the sky and clouds above it with a yellow horizon.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: k0006ac1.jpg

Title: Woman laughing on boat (1front) [e0612ac1]
Description: Woman laughing on a boat during daytime [presumably] on the Erie Canal
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0612ac1.jpg

Title: Wreck at Boonville, N.Y. Showing Bed Of Canal. No.14 July 4, 08 [handwritten front caption] (1front) [k0014ac1]
Description: Black & white picture of the Boonville train wreck of July 4, 1908. A northbound passenger train filled with [presumably] holiday excursionists, collided with a southbound freight train, carrying produce and general goods. There were six fatalities. The image captures the freight train's steam engine and accompanying coal car- derailed, wrecked and lying on the canal embankment. Additional freight cars lay derailed and stacked up, on the top of the canal embankment. Of note in the wreckage, is an early refrigeration car. Railroad personnel and passengers, men and women, dressed in holiday clothing of the period, stand around and atop the wreckage, observing the destruction. The dry canal bed is prominent in the foreground. In the distant background a carriage and team of horses can be seen on the crest of a ridge.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: k0014ac1.jpg

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