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Images of the Erie Canal between Syracuse and Little Falls

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Images of the Erie Canal in Canastota

Erie Canal Lift Bridge, Canastota, N.Y. Erie Canal looking East from Peterboro Street, Canastota, N.Y.
"Erie Canal Lift Bridge, Canastota, N.Y."
(No. C 6137 -- C. F. McConnell,
Canastota, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1910?. 		"Erie Canal looking East from Peterboro Street, Canastota, N.Y." ( C.F. McConnell) -- Postcard ; postmarked Oct. 11, 1913.
Erie Canal and State Street, Canastota, N.Y.  
"Erie Canal and State Street, Canastota, N.Y. [looking west]" (no publisher info.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Jan. 2, [1920?]  

Images of the Erie Canal in Rome and Vicinity

Erie Canal, Rome, N.Y. Erie Canal, Rome, N.Y.
"Erie Canal, Rome, N.Y." (H 4161 -- The Rotograph Co., New York City, c1905) -- Postcard ; UNDB ; postmarked Oct. 3, 1906 ; photograph c1905. "Erie Canal, Rome, N.Y." (E4161, The Rotograph Co, N.Y. City) -- Postcard ; postmark indecipherable ; photograph c1905.

Images of the Erie Canal in Utica and Vicinity

Erie Canal, Utica, N.Y. Tow Path on Erie Canal, near Utica, N.Y.
"Erie Canal, Utica, N.Y." -- Detroit Publishing Co., created between 1900 and 1915 -- from: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. "Tow Path on Erie Canal, near Utica, N.Y." (16825 -- Canal and River Series ; [Rochester News Co., Rochester, N.Y.]) -- Image 1905? ; postcard 1907? Another version, titled: "Erie Canal in the Mohawk Valley", is postmarked Dec. 19, 1905.
 
Erie Canal and Mohawk Valley near Utica, N.Y.  
"Erie Canal and Mohawk Valley near Utica, N.Y." (11628 -- W.C. Rowley, Utica, N.Y., c1905) -- Postcard ; UNDB ; not postmarked.  
 
Erie Canal in the Mohawk Valley Erie Canal, Utica, N.Y.
"Erie Canal in the Mohawk Valley" (6141, The Rochester News Co., Rochester, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; UNDB, postmarked May 29, 1906. "Erie Canal, Utica, N.Y." (252-37, "Made in Germany") -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1908.
 
Utica, N.Y. Erie Canal View on the Erie Canal at West Shore Crossing Utica, N.Y.
"Utica, N.Y. Erie Canal" (No. 3, A.J. Purvis, Utica, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; UNDB ; not postmarked, 1907? "View on the Erie Canal at West Shore Crossing Utica, N.Y." (7754, Hugh C. Leighton Co., Portland, ME.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; 1908?
 
Barge Canal, Utica, New York  
"Barge Canal, Utica, New York" (64237 -- Wm. Jubb Co., Syracuse, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approx. 1930s?  

Images of the Erie Canal in Frankfort

Frankfort Lock, Erie Canal, Frankfort, N.Y.  
"Frankfort Lock, Erie Canal, Frankfort, N.Y." (A5995, American News Company, New York) -- Postcard ; UNDB ; approx. 1906, not postmarked.  

"Erie Canal Viaduct, Moyer Creek Crossing, Frankfort, Herkimer County, NY" / Walter H. Cassebeer, Photographer, June 1936 -- from the Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, HABS NY,22-FRAFO.
Right: "View (looking south)"		 Remains of Erie Canal Aqueduct, Frankfort, N.Y.
Remains of Erie Canal Aqueduct, Frankfort, N.Y. Remains of Erie Canal Aqueduct, Frankfort, N.Y. Remains of Erie Canal Aqueduct, Frankfort, N.Y.
"Towpath viaduct (looking south)" "Towpath viaduct north abutment (looking south east)" "Towpath viaduct west arch (looking south)"
Remains of Erie Canal Aqueduct, Frankfort, N.Y. Remains of Erie Canal Aqueduct, Frankfort, N.Y. Remains of Erie Canal Aqueduct, Frankfort, N.Y.
"Towpath viaduct (looking north)" "South towpath crossing (looking south)" "Detail of south towpath crossing (looking north west)"

Images of the Erie Canal in Ilion

Erie Canal, Ilion, N.Y. Left: "Near Ilion -- Section of Improved Erie Canal" -- from: Annual report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1897 (Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1898)
 
Erie Canal, Ilion, N.Y. Erie Canal, Ilion, N.Y.
"Erie Canal, Ilion, N.Y." (G 8750, The Rotograph Co.) Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1905. "Erie Canal, Ilion, N.Y." (No. 4824, The American News Co., New York) -- Postcard ; postmarked Dec. 2, 1906.
 
Erie Canal and Dry Dock, Ilion, N.Y. Erie Canal, Ilion, N.Y.
"Erie Canal and Dry Dock, Ilion, N.Y." -- Postcard ; postmarked Nov. 1907. "Erie Canal, Ilion, N.Y." (202,666 -- Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., New York) -- Postcard ; postmarked Sep. 3, 1908.
 
Steel Fleet on Erie Canal near Ilion, N.Y. Canal at Ilion, N.Y.
"Steel Fleet on Erie Canal near Ilion, N.Y." (25602 -- The Hugh C. Leighton Co., Portland, Me.) --
Postcard ; not postmarked ; picture approx. 1895?, postcard approx. 1910?. [Note: compare to a photograph of the steel fleet taken in 1895.] 		"Canal at Ilion, N.Y." (222090 -- Valentine-Souvenir Co., New York) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approx. 1915-1920.

Images of the Erie Canal in Herkimer

Erie Canal, Herkimer, N.Y. The Erie Canal, Herkimer, N.Y.
"Erie Canal, Herkimer, N.Y." (A 5784, American News Company, New York) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1905. "The Erie Canal, Herkimer, N.Y." (1001 28, no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1910.
 
Crossing of the old and new canals a little west of Fort Herkimer Left: "Barge Canal, Contract No. 30: Crossing of the
old and new canals a little west of Fort Herkimer"
-- from: Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916 (Albany : J.B. Lyon Co., 1917) -- facing p. 96.
 
Small Movable Dam Seen from Above, Herkimer, N.Y. Mohawk River, Barge Canal and Route 5S Highway, Herkimer, N.Y.
"New York. Barge Canal. Small Movable Dam Seen from Above. Herkimer." (1921) -- Photograph (photographer unknown) ; 14 x 20.5 cm. "Mohawk River, Barge Canal and Route 5S Highway, Herkimer, N.Y." (E-8921 --Wm. Jubb Co., Syracuse, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1930s?
 
Barge on the Mohawk River and Canal, Herkimer, N.Y. Locks at Herkimer on the Barge Canal, Herkimer, N.Y.
"Barge on the Mohawk River and Canal, Herkimer, N.Y. (6B552-N -- Littlefalls Wholesale Co., Littlefalls, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approx. 1930s? "Locks at Herkimer on the Barge Canal, Herkimer, N.Y." [a guard lock, which allows a stretch of the canal to be closed off for maintenance] (6B555-N, Little Falls Wholesale Co., Little Falls, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1930s?
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