The Erie Canal at Schenectady and Vicinity

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Note: The images noted [CSNYS] below are the property of and used with the permission of The Canal Society of New York State.

Old Lithographs, Paintings, Woodcuts, Etc.


"Schenectady" (from: The Water Ways of New York, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 48, no. 283, Dec. 1873, p. 13).

Postcards of the Erie Canal in Schenectady and Vicinity


"Erie Canal at Schenectady" (9346 - Robson & Adee, Schenectady, N.Y.) -- Postcard (UNDB) ; postmarked May 29, 1905. (Compare with the two postcards below).	"Erie Canal, Mohawk River in the distance, Schenectady, N.Y." (9301 - no publisher information) -- Postcard (UNDB) ; not postmarked ; approximately 1905? [CSNYS]	"Electric Mule for Canal Transportation. Built by the General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard (UNDB) ; postmark undecipherable ; approximately 1905? [CSNYS] -- The Electric Mule was designed to pull canal boats into the lock.


Two versions of "Dock Street, Schenectady, N.Y." (Compare with the postcard above left): Left: (no. 5103 - Souvenir Post Card Co., New York) -- Postcard (UNDB) ; not postmarked ; approximately 1906? ; Right: (no. 1907 - Souvenir Post Card Co., New York) -- Postcard (UNDB) ; postmarked Nov. 20, 1906.		"Erie Canal at Schenectady, N.Y." (12462 - Robson & Adee, Schenectady, N.Y.) -- Postcard (UNDB) ; postmarked Aug. 20, 1906.


"Dock St. & Canal, Schenectady, N.Y." (61762 - Gleason Book Co., Schenectady, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Sep.9, 1908. [CSNYS]	"Dock St., Schenectady, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1908? [CSNYS]	"Erie Canal, Mohawk River in the distance, Schenectady, N.Y." (9301 - Wm. J. Gleason, Schenectady, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Feb. 13, 1908.


"Erie Canal near Schenectady, N.Y." (12448 - Robson & Adee, Schenectady, N.Y.) -- Postcard (UNDB) ; postmarked Aug. 9, 1906. Another version is titled "Erie Canal at Schenectady, N.Y.".	"Erie Canal, near Schenectady, N.Y." (252-48 - no publisher information) -- Postcard ; postmarked Oct. 27, 1908.	"Erie Canal Near Schenectady, N.Y." (U.S. 351 - J.H. Galle, Schenectady, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Sep. 16, 1909.


"General Electric Works and Erie Canal, Schenectady, N.Y." (217114 - no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1910? [CSNYS]	"Along the Erie Canal, Schenectady, N.Y." (371 - no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1911? [CSNYS]

East of Schenectady were two aqueducts which crossed and recrossed the Mohawk River: the Rexford Aqueduct (or Upper Mohawk River Aqueduct) at Rexford, and the Crescent Aqueduct (or Lower Mohawk River Aqueduct), twelve miles downstream at Crescent. Images of these two aqueducts may be seen on The Mohawk River Aqueducts page.