Historic Maritime Scenes

Collection of vintage maritime images showcasing boats, ships, and waterfronts from different time periods, featuring calm waters and historic architecture.

The 'Arcadian' at Leningrad shortly after the Revolution Date: circa 1920

The North River Made 1887 England. Photoetching, pl. XV from the album Wild Life on a Tidal Water The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew (1890); edition 270/50 . Peter Henry Emerson

Elsevier photo collection. Appartement barge swing bridge Duivendrecht. November 1925. Duivendrecht

Sailing ships and ship sail in the Oranjesluizen in Amsterdam. Part of family album including photos of Wijnhandel Kraaij & Co. Bordeaux-Amsterdam.

Monitor (warship) Leopard in the port of Den Helder. .

Steam boats and sailing ships in the port of Harlingen, c. 1903 photograph Photo from album "Photographies". Germany (possibly)Netherlands (possibly) cardboard. paper Harlingen

Boat named the Gazelle; about 1860 - 1880; Tinted Albumen silver print

The 'Arcadian' at Leningrad shortly after the Revolution Date: circa 1920

Jetten couple on a river boat, 1925 - 1927 photograph The Jetten couple on a river boat, near Paramaribo (). Photo with corners attached to a page of an album magazine in the photo album about the Jetten family and the life and working in the Mensstad Moengo in Suriname around 1927. Suriname photographic support river Suriname. Paramaribo

Central station seen to the northeast with a ship in the foreground; The central station. Amsterdam .. Part of LeporelloLbum with 24 photos from Amsterdam.

Tug at refinery dock. Port of Houston, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Houston, Texas , Harris County

Ship on the water. Unknown

Alabama - Mobile Bay. Mobile Depot, Alabama. Hurricane damage, July 5, 1916. Wrecked boat, Mobile River.

U.S. gunboat Meteor i.e. Cricket | Library of Congress

Argentine steamer passing through basin to dock at Buenos Aires ca. between 1909 and 1920.

A small trade boat moored up on the Adriatic Coast, Croatia. Two young boys play with a barrel by the side of the water. Date: circa 1930s

Acquia (i.e. Aquia) Creek Landing, Virginia , View at Aquia Creek Landing. View of transports at dock. Supply boat FAIRY shown. No. 446, Title from item, Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner..by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Aquia Creek.

Tugs and Brooklyn from Lower Manhattan, New York, America Date: C.1930s

ship on the water, attributed to Peter Henry Emerson, 1887 - 1890.

Timaru, circa 1900, Dunedin, by Muir & Moodie.

Florida - Key West Depot. Key West Depot, Florida. U.S.N. barge at Depot wharf. 125', 86 degrees true.

Monitor (warship) Leopard in the port of Den Helder. .

U.S. gunboat Black Hawk | Library of Congress

Invalid transport over the Torne River. At the request of the warring powers and through the mediation of the Swedish Red Cross, in August 1915, the exchange of war invalids was started through Sweden. The invalid exchange went on with a few short breaks in January 1918 and during this time 65,509 Russian, German, Austrian, Bulgarian and Turkish disabled and sick prisoners of war were promoted.

View of a harbor head, probably at Corsica. Part of a French amateur photographer photo album with sights in France, Switzerland and Italy.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Chinese commercial vessel Merauke. undated. Guinea

The Fish Market Lowestoft Suffolk Date: 1890

Harbor Scene. Artist: Attributed to Thomas Sutton (British, 1819-1875). Dimensions: Image: 7 3/8 × 9 7/8 in. (18.7 × 25.1 cm)Mount: 10 1/2 in. × 13 in. (26.7 × 33 cm). Date: ca. 1855. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Large boat at dock , Ships, Piers & wharves Edgar Sutton Dorr Photograph Collection

Photograph of the SS Maumee. Photograph of S. S. Maumee. Date June 11, 1918. Nationality: - American. Tonnage: - 2556. Captain: - Jacob Petter Smith. Owners: - Foreign Trans. & Mer. Corp. Where from: - Caleta Buena, Chili Chile. Destination: - Repairs. Where photographed: - Wilmington, N. C. Sixth Naval District. By whom photographed: -J. B. Dearborn. Date photographed: - June 5th., 1918.. 1918-06-05T00:00:00.

Ships for anchor in the Oosterdok in Amsterdam; Amsterdam. The Oosterdok .. Part of photo album with recordings of cities in North and South Holland and Utrecht.

Bound for the North River. Peter Henry Emerson; English, born Cuba, 1856-1936. Date: 1887. Dimensions: 8.1 × 15 cm (image); 24.5 × 30 cm (paper). Photoetching, pl. V from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890), edition 270/50. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Stockton City. California, no. 1111. 1870. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Stockton (Calif.), Steamboats , California, Piers & wharves, San Joaquin River (Calif.)

Elsevier photo collection. Ambulance engine boat Amsterdam medical service. February 1921

Boats on the water; about 1860 - 1880; Tinted Albumen silver print

U.S. gunboat Lafayette. No. 3143, Title from item, Mounted with one other photograph, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

View of ships on the quay along the trees in Rotterdam; Rotterdam. De Boompjes .. Part of photo album with recordings of cities in North and South Holland and Utrecht.

Skioppty view with motifs of ships in Sassnitz.Pilden has been stored in cardboard labeled: Höstesan 1909. Sassnitz 2. Prague 6. N: 1

Photograph of the SS Grainton. Photograph Of S. S. Grainton. November 20, 1918. Nationality: British. Tonnage 6042. Length: 415 ft. Beam 55 ft. Draft: 30' 6". Captain: J. W. Henderson. Owners: Ira Chapman & Son New Castle. Where From: Iquique Chili Chile. Destination: Not Known. Where Photographed: Charleston S. C. Sixth Naval District. By Whom J. B. Dearborn. Date: Oct. 26th. 1918. Where Camouflaged: Manchester England July 13th. 1918. By Whom: Manchester Dry Dock Co. British Admirality Admiralty. Type Of Ship: Flush Deck One Gun 4 Point 7. Four Otters. Color Numbers #1 Bluegray, #1 Graygreen, #3 Blue, #2 Gray & Black. Two Masts: Foremast #1 Graygreen, Aftmast #1 Bluegray. Two King Post Foreward #1 Graygreen With Black Marks Like Chinese Writing Two Stacks, Large & Small Together: #1 Graygreen, #1 Bluegray, #2 Gray&Blk. A Large Floating Raft Foreward Made Of Barrels.. 1918-10-26T00:00:00.

Views at Belle Plain Landing, Virginia, May, 1864. No. 1281, Title from item, Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Views at Belle Plain Landing, Va, May, 1864, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia.

'Newcastle-On-Tyne - View on the Tyne', 1895. Artist: Unknown.

Photograph of the Port View of the SS Merrimack. Port View. Date: - July 20, 1918. Photograph Of S. S. Merrimack. Nationality: - American. Tonnage: - 4500. Captain: - T. S. Herbert. Owners: - M. & M. T. Co. Where From: - Baltimore, Md. Destination: - Baltimore, Md. Where Photographed: - Jacksonville, Fla. Sixth Naval District. By Whom Photographed: - J. B. Dearborn. Date Photographed: - July 8th., 1918.. 1918-07-08T00:00:00.

Vismarkt in Helsinki with moored boats on the Kade., 1898 photograph HelsinkiNetherlands paper. photographic support albumen print

Water shortage 1953.

Ships in the port of (presumably) Sydney, Charles Bayliss, c. 1890 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in Sydney. Sydney cardboard. paper. photographic support albumen print harbour (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.). sailing-ship, sailing-boat. steamship, motorship Sydney

The Docks, Cramp's Shipyards, Philadelphia, Pa. still image. Postcards. 1907 - 1908. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Ships, Philadelphia (Pa.), Boat & ship industry

The East River Bridge, New York, United States of America. After an anonymous photograph taken circa 1880's.

Opening North Sea Canal, 1876, Anonymous, 1876 photograph Festive opening of the North Sea Canal, November 1, 1876. Steam ships sail through the flags decorated with flags. In the background, visitors stand for a party tent. North Sea Canal paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print canal. sluice, weir. festivities on events of national importance. ships (in general) (+ propulsion of vehicle, ship, etc. by steam) North Sea Canal

Wharves at Bermuda Hundred Landing, Virginia. No. B393, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation, United States, Virginia, Bermuda Hundred.

White House Landing, Pamunkey River. Artist: Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840-1882). Dimensions: 13.1 x 20.2 cm (5 3/16 x 7 15/16 in. ). Former Attribution: Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823-1896 New York). Date: 1861-65. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Barge; about 1860 - 1880; Tinted Albumen silver print

Ships on the Suez Canal, Kantara, Egypt, 1895. Creator: W & S Ltd.

On the boot.photo 4 on album 44 from album "Amsterdam 1890-1894".

Geight OP Bremerhaven; Bremerhaven. New harbor. .

Shipping, East River. American scenery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.)

Stereo photograph of the harbor in Giurgiu, Romania, captured by Carol Popp de Szathmari around 1877 on albumin paper, showing docks, ships, and river traffic.

View of sailboats in a harbor in France with a large building in the background. Part of a French amateur photographer photo album with sights in France, Switzerland and Italy.

Aberdeen Harbour from Dock Gates, 1880s

Bomschuiten on the beach, Henri de Louw, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Delft paper albumen print ships, boats on land, beached

Old Junks Made 1863-1873 Scotland. Collotype, pl. XIX from the album Illustrations of China and its People, Volume II (1873) . John Thomson

U.S. gunboat Queen City. No. 3147, Title from item, Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Mississippi River Fleet, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Mississippi River.

Burnside Wharf. A.J. Russell (American, 1830 - 1902)

The image shows a loading cask where a tanker is loaded with gasoline.At the quay edge several pumps and a rail with a railway wagon.Original text: "German tankers and railway tanks, by means of which benzine is transported to the flandal channel area."The image shows a loading cask where a tanker is loaded with gasoline.At the kajkanten, several pumps and a rail with a railway wagon are visible.

Having workers on dried ships in the port of Delagoa Bay in Mozambique, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of album with 191 photos from a trip to and through South Africa. Maputo paper. photographic support harbour Maputo

Fishing trawlers and liners laid up at the Fleetwood docks, owing to shortage of coal due to the General Strike Date: 1926

Ready For Action. This image depicts Old Glory proudly flying from the stern of a U.S. Coast Guard sub buster.

Frigates "Santee" and "Constitution" off Naval Academy, Annapolis. Former Attribution: Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823-1896 New York). Date: 1861-65. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Port-Said, entrada al Canal de Suez.

Sailing ship with in the background the coast of Dieppe. Part of a French amateur album with photos of France, Algeria, Palmyra, the 1900 World Exhibition and of Famous Fransen.

U.S. gunboat Silver Cloud. No. 3149, Title from item, Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Mississippi River Fleet, Cited in Fighting for Time: the Image of War, vol. 4, p. 334, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Mississippi River.

Pier D from Caisson Dry Dock Number 1, Monthly Progress Photo, E. D. V. Tompkins, Contractor. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Barge. Unknown

Foot of Wall St. where the Presindent landed. April 29th, 1889. Centennial. 1889. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.)

Harbor ,

Participants in the Paris-Amsterdam Race pass through their cars a Pontoon Bridge in Nijmegen. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and autoraces.

The City of Columbus before the wreck. The passenger steamer City of Columbus ran aground on Devils Bridge off the Gay Head Cliffs in Aquinnah, Massachusetts, in the early hours of January 18, 1884.

Ships in the port of Great Yarmouth UK, Peter Henry Emerson, 1887 - 1890.

Shipping, Port Said albumen prints, black-and-white prints

Austrian monitor BODROG on the Save i.e., Sava River

Boats on the quay in the port of (presumably) Sydney. Part of travel album with pictures of sights in Sydney.

Port of Dieppe, France, Anonymous, 1850 - 1920.

Hingham, Mass. , Sailboats, Harbors. Hingham Public Library Postcard Collection

Rijkswaterstaat photo collection. Moerdijk bridges. Transport of the office by a few ships, to be used in the construction of a bridge over the Hollandsch Diep. 1860-1870}. Moerdijk, Moerdijk, Noord-Brabant, Noord-Brabant

Maritime transport during the war years 1914-1918.

Elsevier photo collection. Scheveningen. Beach seinpost. Bombshuiten Sch 139 Sch 82. 1896. Scheveningen, South Holland

Steamboat 'Florence' at the Pier, 1850 - 1930, 1875, Rhode Island, Narragansett (R.I.), Steamboats, Breakwaters, Albumen prints

In the Yarmouth River. Peter Henry Emerson; English, born Cuba, 1856-1936. Date: 1887. Dimensions: 9.5 × 14.8 cm (image); 24.8 × 30.1 cm (paper). Photoetching, pl. XX from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890), edition 270/500. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Sailing ships on the water, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1910.

The 'Monocacy' towing the Boats.... Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)

Boat. 1900 - 1960. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Fort Berthold Agency. 1949-. Photographs

SJ trains are taken aboard "King Gustaf V".

Mataafa's people delivering arms to the "Badger", 1890-1910, Smoa, by Thomas Andrew. Acquired 1950.

Malm quays on Svartön.

Österr.Segler at the Livenza at Torre di Mosti 24.11.17. .

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, June 1910. Ladies' regattas organized as a gift from the Infanta Isabel in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

"Wairau" formerly the Ronga black-and-white prints, vintage prints

View of a single-funnelled troopship with three masts along the Suez canal. There are smaller river boats and a cargo ship moored on the side of the canal. Photograph taken by the Zangaki brothers. Caption inscribed on negative: Zangaki. Malabar illegible. Handwritten caption reads: 1893 Her Majestys Troopship Malabar in Suez Canal.

Sailing ships in the Suez Channel; Suez Channel.

Vintage photograph. Gloucester, the fishing capital. Harbor, New England. Boats, vintage cars

U.S.S. Princeton

German Ships, Hoboken, 3/30/16 VATERLAND

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