Erie Canal Images - East Section (page 1)

Images of the Erie Canal in the Mohawk Valley


"Erie Canal in the Mohawk Valley" (No. 2635, Rochester News Co., Rochester, N.Y.) -- Postcard (UNDB) ; postmarked Dec. 19, 1905. Another (colored) version of this scene is titled "Tow Path on Erie Canal, near Utica, N.Y." (Note that, in the colored version, the colorist has taken artistic liberties by removing the utility poles.)	"Mohawk Valley, N.Y." (G 4370 -- Rotograph Co., N.Y. City, c1905) -- Postcard (UNDB) ; postmarked Jul. 16, 1907.

Images of the Erie Canal in the St. Johnsville area


Photograph of Lock 33, St. Johnsville, N.Y., while still in use (late 1890s?). Courtesy of Terry Potoczny.	"Kysers[?] Lock near St. Johnsville, N.Y." [Lock 33]-- Real Picture Postcard ; approximately 1901? [CSNYS]


"In the Mohawk Valley, looking West, St. Johnsville, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard (UNDB) ; message dated May 12, 1907. [CSNYS]	"View of St. Johnsville, N.Y." (Rochester News Co.?, New York) -- Postcard (UNDB, but divided by user) ; postmarked May 30, 1914, but clearly published 1906-1907 or earlier.	"Bird's Eye View of St. Johnsville, N.Y." (8421 -- Hugh C. Leighton Co., Portland, Me.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Aug. 29, 1914.

For recent pictures of the remains of Lock 33 today, see the Enlarged Erie Canal Lock No. 33 page. Also, for other historical information and pictures of the remains of Lock 33 today, see the Erie Canal Lock 33 web site.

Images of the Erie Canal in Fort Plain and Vicinity


"View of Prism in Village of Fort Plain [canal repairs]" -- 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)	"The Erie Canal at Fort Plain, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard (UNDB) ; not postmarked ; approximately 1905?	"Canal & Canal St. from Prospect Hill, Fort Plain, N.Y." -- Real Picture Postcard ; postmarked Oct. 30, 1907. [CSNYS]


"Lock on Erie Canal, Fort Plain, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; 1906? [CSNYS] -- A variant copy has title: "Lock no. 32, Erie Canal, Fort Plain, N.Y." and is postmarked Jul. 25, 1906.	"Erie Canal and Locks, Fort Plain, N.Y." (M-19527 - Diefendorf & Waters, Fort Plain, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Aug. 26, 1916. [CSNYS] -- Compare this view to the 1906 postcard to the left.	"Mohawk Valley near Fort Plain, N.Y." (no publisher info.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1908? [CSNYS]


"Canal Bridges, Fort Plain, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1908? [CSNYS]	"[The Erie Canal in Fort Plain, N.Y.]" -- Photograph ; approximately 1909? [CSNYS]	"Fort Plain" (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; postmarked Jul. 30, 1910. [CSNYS]


"Erie Canal Aqueduct, Fort Plain, N.Y." -- Real Photo Postcard ; postmarked Oct 10, 1910. [CSNYS]	"Bird's-eye View, Fort Plain, N.Y." (218627 - no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1910? [CSNYS]	"Mohawk Valley, Fort Plain, N.Y." (A 8525 - Diefendorf & Waters, Fort Plain, N.Y.) -- Postmarked Apr. 7, 1910. [CSNYS]


"Erie Canal, Fort Plain, N.Y." (No. E 2122, Diefendorf & Waters, Fort Plain, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Sep. 18, 1915 (another copy is postmarked Aug. 24, 1911).	"Erie Canal Aqueduct, Fort Plain, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1911? [CSNYS]	"Aqueduct, Fort Plain, N.Y." (No. [5]? 2126 - Diefendorf and Waters, Fort Plain, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Feb. 9, 1911. [CSNYS]


"Barge Canal, Movable Dam and Lock 15 seen from below, looking west - Fort Plain. -- 1916. -- From: New York State Archives.	"Barge Canal, Movable Dam and Lock 15, looking west, Fort Plain, N.Y." -- Photograph ; approximately 1920? [CSNYS]	"Stone Bridge, Fort Plain, Montgomery County, N.Y." (Fort Plain aqueduct) / Thos. T. Waterman, Photographer ; from the Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS NY,29-FORPL,1-1 ; after 1933?
	Above right: The portion of the aqueduct being used as a bridge was the canal towpath; the canal prism was a wooden trunk supported by the stone "walls" seen in the creek bed.

The following four images were contributed by Mr. Tom A. Doganieri, and are used courtesy of Cliff Williams and Terry Doganieri. (The last two are full size.)

Lock 32, Fort Plain -- A late 1800s photo looking east -- the Doganieri property is to the left, adjacent to the canal locks.	Fort Plain -- An 1880 photo looking northeast. Trees block the view of Lock 32.

Lock 32, Fort Plain -- looking toward the northwest -- about 1900.	Looking into Lock 32, with the Lock Grocery/Doganieri House at the right.

For pictures of the remains of the Fort Plain (Otsquago Creek) Aqueduct and the remains of Lock 32 in Fort Plain , see the Traces section.

Images of the Erie Canal in the Canajoharie area


"Bird's Eye View of Canajoharie & Palatine [Bridge]" (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1905? [CSNYS]	"Lift Bridge, Erie Canal, Canajoharie, N.Y." -- Real Photo Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1906? [CSNYS]	"View on Erie Canal, Canajoharie, N.Y." (D. 12381 -- no publisher information) -- Postcard ; postmarked May 28, 1910. [CSNYS]


"The German Flatts, Canajoharie, N.Y." (AA 4442 - no publisher information) -- Postcard ; postmarked Oct. 24, 1910. [CSNYS]	"Erie Canal and Mohawk Valley, Canajoharie, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1912? [CSNYS]	"The Canal, Canajoharie, N.Y." (218643 - Chas. W. Hughes, Mechanicville, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Apr. 20, 1918. [CSNYS]

Images of the Erie Canal in the Sprakers area


Lock 31 in Sprakers, N.Y. -- north chamber, looking east -- date unknown ; 1905? [CSNYS]	"Sprakers" (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; postmarked Jan. 27, 1906. [CSNYS]

"S.W. Cohen's Big Store, Sprakers, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1908? [CSNYS]	"Sprakers Lock, Erie Canal, East of Cohen's Store" (No. A4180 - Silas W. Cohen & Bro., Sprakers, N.Y.) -- Postmarked Jun. 26, 1908. [CSNYS]


"Lock and Meade's Restaurant, Sprakers, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1910? [CSNYS]	"Big Nose, in the Mohawk Valley, Sprakers, N.Y." (Mo. D 8914 - S.W. Cohen & Bro., The Big Store, Sprakers N.Y.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Aug. 21, 1911. [CSNYS]	"Big Nose, Erie Canal and W.S.R.R. - In the Mohawk Valley, Sprakers, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1912? [CSNYS] -- Big Nose is on the left, to the right is Little Nose.

For pictures of the remains of Lock 31 in Sprakers , see the Enlarged Erie Canal Lock No. 31 page in the Traces section.

Images of the Erie Canal in the Fultonville area


"Fultonville, New York looking west from Main Street Bridge" (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1906? [CSNYS]	"Erie Canal, Fultonville, N.Y." (No. C 5755 - American News Co., New York) -- Postcard ; postmarked May 8, 1908. [CSNYS]	"Down the Valley from Fultonville" (Donaldson & Kling, Fultonville, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Jun. 18, 1908. [CSNYS]


"Erie Canal, Fultonville, N.Y." (No. C 13494 -- Wm. W. Furbeck, Fultonville, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1910?	"Unloading Coal from Canal Boats, Fultonville, N.Y." -- Real Picture Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1910? [CSNYS]	"View of Erie Canal, Fultonville, N.Y." -- Postcard ; postmarked Feb. 10, 1920 (another copy is dated Jan. 17, 1919). [CSNYS]

Images of the Erie Canal in the Fort Hunter/Tribes Hill area


"Level between Locks 29-30, Erie Canal" [at Fort Hunter] (Brown Bros.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1906? [CSNYS]	"Erie Canal Aqueduct over Schoharie [Creek], Ft. Hunter, N.Y." -- Real Photo Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1910?	"Fort Hunter, N.Y., The Schoharie Aqueduct" (No. 3681, Hugh C. Leighton Co., Portland, ME.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Oct. 13, 1916.

	Left: "Brown's Cash Store [to the right of Lock 30], circa 1900, once located on today's corner of Main Street and Schoharie Street in Fort Hunter. It housed a canal store, butcher shop, inn, tavern, and a post office. Burned down in 1916. -- From the Clarke Blair Collection, Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site.	Enlarged Erie Canal Lock No. 30 was a lift-lock on the Enlarged Erie Canal. Built in 1841, it was located just east of the Schoharie Creek Aqueduct. Owing to its condition and its location in the middle of the village of Fort Hunter, it was pulled down in 1955, and no trace of it remains today.

"Lock at Brown Bros. Store, Fort Hunter, N.Y." [Lock 30] -- Real Photo Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1905? [CSNYS]	Above left: "Brown's store at Lock 30, Improved canal" -- p.12 ; Right: "Boat passing through Lock 30" -- p.13 -- both from: Fort Hunter - "Canal-Town, U.S.A." / by David H. Veeder. (Fort Hunter, N.Y. : Fort Hunter Canal Society ; printed by The Noteworthy Co., Amsterdam, N.Y., c1968. --


Left: "The Dam, Fort Hunter, N.Y." -- p. 6 (Schoharie dam formed the still water pool used for the original crossing of the creek. After the aqueduct was put in use in 1841, the pool continued to supply water to the old canal, which then served as a feeder to the improved canal.) Middle: "Schoharie Creek aqueduct. Early 1900's"-- p. 11 Right: "Towing boat across Schoharie Creek Aqueduct" -- p. 12 -- all from: Fort Hunter - "Canal-Town, U.S.A." / by David H. Veeder. (Fort Hunter, N.Y. : Fort Hunter Canal Society ; printed by The Noteworthy Co., Amsterdam, N.Y., c1968).

"Barge Canal Contract No. 17" [Lock No. 12 and dam at Tribes Hill] -- From: Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1911 (Albany : Argus Co., printers, 1912) -- facing p. 58.

For more images of the Schoharie Creek Aqueduct, the Old Erie "Empire" Lock No. 20, Enlarged Erie "Empire" Lock No. 29,
"Yankee Hill" Lock No. 28, and the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Park, go to the Schoharie Crossing page.

Images of the Erie Canal in the Amsterdam area


"Port Jackson, now (South Amsterdam), looking west to Lock no. 28" -- Photograph (source unknown) ; approximately 1905? [CSNYS]	"Erie Canal looking East, Amsterdam, N.Y." (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; postmarked Oct. 27, 1906.	"View of Canal Basin from Lower Bridge, Amsterdam, N.Y." (R-26423 - no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1908?


"On the Tow Path, Erie Canal and Mohawk River - Amsterdam in distance" (No. 3670 - The Hugh C. Leighton Co., Portland, Me.) -- Postcard ; postmarked May 26, 1913.	"Lock No. 11, Barge Canal, Amsterdam, N.Y." (R-26429 - no publisher information) -- Postcard ; postmarked Sep. 3, 1912.	"Barge Canal, Lock 11, Amsterdam, N.Y." (218935 - The Valentine-Souvenir Co., New York) -- Postcard ; postmarked Oct. 26, 1915? (year unclear).


"Barge Canal Dam, near Cranesville, Amsterdam, N.Y." (216273 - [The Valentine-Souvenir Co., New York]) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1918? [CSNYS]	"Interior Lock No. 11, Amsterdam, N.Y." (A-80310 - Chas. W. Hughes, Mechanicville, N.Y.) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; 1920s?

Lock Eleven on the Erie Canal at Amsterdam, New York / John Collier, photographer -- Oct. 1941 Images from the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.)

"Many of the Erie Canal barges are still built of wood." -- The barge Edward Hedger in Lock Eleven near Amsterdam.	"Barge in Lock Eleven, Erie Canal, near Amsterdam, New York."	"Barges passing through Lock Eleven, Erie Canal, New York."

Images of the Erie Canal in the Pattersonville/Rotterdam Junction area


"The Erie Canal, Pattersonville" (no publisher information) -- Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1906? [CSNYS]	"Canal Bridge, Pattersonville, N.Y." -- Real Photo Postcard ; not postmarked ; approximately 1908? [CSNYS]


"Erie Canal Lock [Lock 25], Rotterdam Jct., N.Y." (M14942 - Mabel Mathusa, Rotterdam Jct., N.Y.) -- Postcard ; postmarked Sep. 190[7]?) [CSNYS] -- For a photograph of the same scene, see "Barges on Erie Canal being locked through lock 25 at Lock St., Rotterdam Jct."	"Lock on the old Erie Canal not in use, New York" / John Collier, photographer -- Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Oct. 1941 -- Enlarged Erie Canal Lock no. 23.

Images of the Erie Canal in the Scotia area


"Barge Canal, Contract No. 8-A: Lock no. 8 and Dam no. 4, at Scotia, N.Y." -- from Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1915 (Albany : J. B. Lyon Co, printers, 1916) -- facing p. 88.	"Lock and movable dam at Scotia" -- 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. 12.


"Barge Canal, Contracts Nos. 8-A and 115: Lock and movable dam at Scotia" -- 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. 64.	"Movable dam of bridge type, beside a lock, at Scotia, on the Mohawk river" -- from: History of the Barge Canal of New York State / by Noble E. Whitford; supplement to the Annual report of the State Engineer and Surveyor for the year ended June 30, 1921 (Albany : J.B. Lyon Co., printers, 1922) -- opposite p. 148.


"Barge Canal, Contract No. 20-D: A view of Mohawk River canalization" -- 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. 72.