Photograph showing a raft of logs in the Poe Lock as a freighter leaves the Davis Lock, bound for Lake Superior. The bascule on the railroad bridge is open to allow the ship to pass.
Photograph showing ladies on lower lock wall of Weitzel Lock with the Adminstration Building in the background.The Adminstation Building was completed in 1897. This photo may have been taken shortly after it was complete.
Photograph showing an aerial view of the Soo Locks. The Union Carbide plant (removed ca. 1964) is in lower left, with the hydroelectric plant (still operational in 2006, 104 years after it opened) to the right of it. The railroad swing bridge, in...
Cyanotype photograph showing a view of men standing on rubble left after the big fire of 1886, showing some of the land between Water Street and Portage Avenue.
Cyanotype photograph showing a rear view of the Chippewa House after the big fire of 1886. Ashmun Street (between Water and Portage) now runs through the spot where the men are standing.
Photograph of an aggregate plant, set up in preparation for mixing concrete used to pour piers, walls and floor of the Davis Lock. The sign on the structure reads ""Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Chicago…Buffalo,…Amherstburg.""
Photograph of an aggregate plant, set up in preparation for mixing concrete used to pour piers, walls and floor of the Davis Lock. The sign on the structure reads ""Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Chicago…Buffalo,…Amherstburg.""
Duplicate photograph copied in 1938 of a cyanotype photograh taken in 1887 taken from the top of the Master Block that stood on the Northeast Corner of Ashmun and Spruce Streets, looking across (West) Ashmun along Spruce. Building in right...
Cyanotype photograph of Ashmun Street looking south (in 1913 - site of Newton Block), Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, 1883, residential - showing homes of (#2) E. H. Mead (1883-1885) and (#1) Otto Fowle (1883-188?) - H. S. Newton.
Photograph showing the steamship ""Augustus B. Wolvin"" upbound in the Poe Lock. The ""Wolvin"" was the first lake carrier built with arches to support the deck.