Historic Maritime Scenes

Black-and-white photographs depicting historic ports and ships from the early 1900s, capturing the essence of nautical transport.

C&B Line Freight Docks, Buffalo, New York, USA, Detroit Publishing Company, 1905

Bay with ships under a cloudy sky with jacis ladders on Ambon. Part of travel album with pictures of Ambon.

Photograph of the harbor exit in Alexandria, produced on chlorship lilber gelatine extension paper on 21 November 1908.

The Santa Maria at the Gateway Arch, Saint Louis riverfront , Ships, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Photograph of the Fore Side of the Bridge of the SS Bayway. Photograph of Fore Side Of Bridge. August 15th 1918. Photographs Of S. S. Bayway. Nationality: - American. Tonnage: - 5080. Captain: - W. J. Healey. Owners: - Std. Oil Co. Where From: - Baton Rouge, LA. Destination: - Wilmington, N.C. Where Photographed: - Charleston, S. C. Sixth Naval District. By Whom Photographed: - J. B. Dearborn. Date: - July 20th., 1918. Where Camouflaged: Baton Rouge, LA. Date: - June 24th., 1918. By Whom Camouflaged: - Orders Of U. S. Gov't. Type: Oil Tanker. Length: -420'; Beam: - 52'4"; Draft: - 28' 5": Two Masts: -Foremost White Mainmast No. 1 Grey; One Smokestack; No Guns. The Most Prominent Parts Are The Bulkheads; & Fore & Aft Bridge.. 1918-07-20T00:00:00.

Vintage Photograph. St. Petersburg - Clearwater International Airport.

Lydda Airport. Lydda runways with aneilon. 1934, Israel, Lod

Port Suez ships mooring in the Bay of the Red Sea View from the Bermuda unknown

Closing device on gravel car. SJ gravel car 3232

HR.MS armored cover. Friesland (1898-1913) Vaart through the Corinth channel

Photo collection Government information service. Inland shipping vessels at a jetty. undated

The Santa Maria at the Gateway Arch, Saint Louis riverfront , Ships, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

New Jersey - Junction. Junction Light, New Jersey. Closed view showing effects of fire, June 22, 1916, dist. 20 ft.

Quay with tubes and the Bentoren 'Millioenen-Course' in Pangkalansusu on Sumatra, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of activities and sights on Sumatra and Java and of the trip to and of the Dutch East Indies. Sumatra paper. photographic support gelatin silver print oil; oil refinery. derrick ~ oil Sumatra

Photo collection Government information service. Volendam. undated. Noord-Holland, Volendam

Boritz. Bl. Üb.D. Elbe m. Tug to Boritz

'Completed in 1893, the Corinth Canal', 1937. Artist: Unknown.

Description: Gill-netting - Trolling. Location: Canada Date: 1963 canada, americas

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection Government information service own, photo number 156-0539. 1956

River boat Prins Hendrik at the scaffolding of Plantage Accaribo., 1913 - 1930 stereograph Steamboat Prins Hendrik at the jetty in the river. Next to the boat De Vlet that brought visitors from the scaffolding to Plantage Accaribo. Suriname glass plantation Soulame. Plantage Accaria

Armored cruiser Rossia by Isenberg, Konstantin Vasilyevich (1859-1911) State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg 1897 Russia Watercolour on cardboard Painting History

Essex, marine , Boats. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

Suez, the port, Egypt, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated

Northwest Passage. Filing through Bellot Strait and into history, three U.S. Coast Guard ships follow in the wake of Canadian Arctic Patrol ship HMCS Labrador, forging the second key links of a deep-draft short-cut Northwest Passages routed by the U.S. Navy's military Sea Transportation Service. The leading United States Ship making transit of Bellot Strait is the many purpose, U.S. Coast Guard utility icebreaker Storis (WAG-38) followed by U.S. Coast Guard tenders Bramble (WAGL-392), and Spar (WAGL-403). All four ships participated in survey work and proved the 17-mile, one mile wide waterway navigable by deep-draft ships. Critical areas in the trans-continental for northern water route were determined by Military Sea Transportation Service to be the James Ross and Ballot Strait.

Description: Breakwater from Titan at Root. March 1885. Location: Colombo, Ceylon Date: March 1885 asia, srilanka, ceylon, asiathroughalens

Piers in Poland, Sailboats in Poland, Beaches of Poland, Baltic Sea, 1898, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Zoppot, Seesteg

Small skiff with three persons on board off Northwest Beach Anguilla Island. Small skiff with three persons on board off Northwest Beach Anguilla Island.

Vintage Photograph. A boatyard with people working on a boat.

Ship 'Prince of the Netherlands' for anchor at the quay of Port Said, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of activities and sights on Sumatra and Java and of the trip to and of the Dutch East Indies. Port Said paper. photographic support gelatin silver print steamship, motorship. pier, quay, wharf Port Said

Union Avenue swept by seven feet of rushing water -- great flood, June 1903, Kansas City, Mo. , Floods, Streets

Landing Fields - Alaska - Lake Minchumina, Aerial Photograph.

Sampling of ore on Svartön at Luleå station. As early as 1883, construction work began on Svartön at Luleå for the Luleå Gällivare railway - Luossavaara - Victoriahamn. It took almost 6 years before the first ore train came down to Luleå in 1888. The track was built by Sweden & Norway Railway.

Waving passengers on a ship and those who stayed behind on a quay, Anonymous, 1920 - 1930 photograph Part of the Dutch East Indies family album. photographic support gelatin silver print waving farewell ~ departure on a journey (+ exterior ~ vehicle, ship, etc.) Netherlands

Massachusetts - Woods Hole. Taken from deck of light-ship alond side of wharf - looking south. Present lighthouse depot - Woods Hole. Two buildings North end not shown.

Travel photos Norway. Ship dock with hut ("Esstube"). View with a small steamer "Vesle Øvvvind

Party of Gothenburg harbor with Stenpiren and Old Customs House.

Photo collection Government information service. shipping, Europoort before. undated

Vintage Photograph. X-17 High altitude research rocket.

Vintage Photograph. Shrimp boats lined up at pier for ice in preparation for shrimping trip in the Gulf of Mexico at Morgan City Louisiana.

Anefo photo collection. Air pollution Rijnmond. September 29, 1971

Ferris wheel at the Chicago Exposition, United States of America, illustration from L'Illustration, No 2635, August 26, 1893.

Shore of the Elbe with railroad track, there turntable carriage with limited wood that is to be assembled to rafts

Cruise ship "Reliance

Tuyên-Quang, Tonkin, Indochina of sampans anchored by the Claire River , Léon Busy in Indochina (French - Tuyên-quang , Tonkin , Indochine Des sampans ancrés au bord de la rivière Claire). River, boat, river transport , lake, Transport, Indochina, tonkin, landscapes - from Hanoi, the edge of the Claire River in Tuyenquang

Tacoma, Washington. Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse, November 7, 1940, Anonymous

Anefo photo collection. Schiphol. undated. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Douglas, Hafen mit Dampfschiffen, Isle of Man / harbor with steamers, Isle of Man, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, 1880, Record date not stated

Transparency - Loading from floating elevators to ocean liners, Montreal, QC, about 1920

Elsevier photo collection. Hiswa in the RAI in Amsterdam. One of the remarkable boats is the "weekend", a bungalow on the water. March 9, 1965. Amsterdam

Travel photos. Passenger ship in front of a coast. View of a passing ship

Albumin paper photograph by Carl Alexander Czichna showing Welsberg in Tyrol and the Busterthalerbahn railway, around 1865 in stereo format.

Landing Fields - Azores - Azores, Aerial Photograph.

Landing Fields - Alaska - Nenana Airport, Aerial Photograph.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Aerial recording. Recreational area Veluwerandmeer. Beaches zero and Horst and port for pleasure craft. 1968. Gelderland, Putten

Three Cars with Town Behind Show Where Building Will Be. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pierre Agency. 1954-1972. Decimal Correspondence

Port of Gothenburg. Fiskhamnen and England quay.

Locomotives on railway yard Roosendaal (2), 1930 photograph Album magazine with six photos of locomotives with accompanying songs and type designation. Part of photographic travel report of the visit of the Stephenson Locomotive Society to the Netherlands. Roosendaal cardboard. paper. photographic support. ink gelatin silver print railway, train. locomotive Roosendaal

Flykampschip hr.ms. Karel Doorman (2) (1948-1968), arrival with narrow part v

Line work, Östersund.

Aerial starboard bow view of the aircraft carrier CORAL SEA (CV 43) in the late stages of being scrapped out at the Fairfield Terminal of the new Patapsco Marine Salvage Company. The PMS Co. took over operations from the bankrupt Seawitch Salvage Company. Base: Baltimore Harbor State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Operation Deep Freeze I - Icebreaker Eastwind. The Living Ship on Cargo Unloading Mission. The Eastwind's cargo is off-loaded by cranes onto sledges for towing by vessels and caterpillars to the Air Operation Facility at Hut Point, Ross Island. At this time the Eastwind shuttled between the Navy cargo ship Wyandot anchored in open water of McMurdo Sound and a place in the ice 4 miles from camp.

Fishing by Bridge

Historical images of Chain Bridge, Budapest, Steamships of Hungary, Piers in Hungary, 1903, Kettenbrücke mit Dampfer

Boats on a river. Boats on a river

Shuffleboard game, probably aboard the high-sea passenger steamer "Viktoria Luise

Transparency - Deck scene, on one of the Canadian Pacific Line's Great Lakes steamships, ON, about 1935

Low lighting of the lights line red at Hoek van Holland.

Schmilka (ship, 1897), Střekov (castle), Hohenzollern (ship, Elbe in Ústí nad Labem, 1912, Ústí nad Labem Region, Aussig, Schreckenstein, Elbe mit Dampfer, Czech Republic

Anchors, Nantucket , Anchors. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

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