steamers

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The Quays in Sligo

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 13 older comments, and then…
  • Blushing Toothbrush said:
    marvellous
  • B-59 said:
    The Heathmore, Liverpool was launched in 1883 and sank in 1897 www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?a1PageSize=50&ship_list...
  • domenico milella said:
    Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The Cathedral is from 1875 per the NIAH
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Fascinated by this photo; I just discovered that my maternal grandfather was born in a house in the middle distance in 1892, about the time of this photo.

Busy scene on Galveston Docks

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

  • >>>>>E & family/friends>>>> said:
    Wow, sure looks packed with traffic~
  • railspot said:
    Tugboat is the "Wm. J. Kelly of Galveston," which records show was built in 1903. This same photo appears on a postcard that was postmarked in May of 1907, so the photo had to have been taken sometime during that 4-year span. See digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tex/id/563 . The wooden vessel at left is a rail barge that appears to contain 3 tracks. The end of a boxcar can be seen on the starboard track, at the very edge of the photo. On the center track is a Kansas City Southern RR gondola car. It is coupled to a boxcar bearing the "Port Arthur Route" logo originated by the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf RR, which became KCS around 1900. The port track looks to be empty. This rail barge operation was most probably that of the Gulf & Inter-State Railway, which for about the first four decades of the 20th century ferried its trains across Galveston Bay to/from Pt. Bolivar. From there, the actual railway ran to Beaumont where connection was made with the KCS and other railroads. It is recorded that the G&I operated 2 barges in this service, the smaller of which was named "Jefferson" and could hold only 7 railcars. The barge shown here looks to be about that size, can anyone say with certainty whether it is the "Jefferson" or not? The larger G&I rail barge also appears in this collection at www.flickr.com/photos/smu_cul_digitalcollections/6944369005 .
  • SMU Libraries Digital Collections said:
    railspot Thank you again for your feedback! Based on the information on the duplicate photograph, we've changed the date to match and have updated our records accordingly. Thank you again for your help!

Steamer Taking on Ice, in Taku Bay.

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

  • Guy Reynolds said:
    how does SMU come to acquire such an album?