Nautical History and Ports

Antique photographs highlighting historical ships and ports, depicting maritime activities from the late 19th to early 20th century.

View of a quay, This photo is part of an album., photograph, photo, album sheet, photos, height 83 mm, width 113 mm, photographer, 1880 - 1920, cardboard, photographic paper, photo paper, daylight gelatin silver print

Boats, presumably from the navy, on the Neva in Saint Petersburg, seen from the Nicolaasbrug; Cadet-corps von der Nicolai-brücke ...

View of a quay, This photo is part of an album., photograph, photo, album sheet, photos, height 83 mm, width 113 mm, photographer, 1880 - 1920, cardboard, photographic paper, photo paper, daylight gelatin silver print

Ship to a Kade.Photo 3 on album 47 from album "Amsterdam 1890-1894".

Fishing vessels in a port, presumably in the Netherlands. Part of travel album from a Dutch family with sights in Europe, Egypt and New York.

Hooghly River. John Edward Saché (Prussian or British, born Prussia, 1824 - 1882)

Sailing and steam ships in Port Said, C. & G. Zangaki, 1885 photograph This photo is part of an album. photographic support albumen print landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone). steamship, motorship. sailing-ship, sailing-boat Port Said

Toil and Grime Made 1887 England. Photoetching, pl. XI 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

Ships for anchor in the Oosterdok, on the right the ship de Merapi, c. 1860 - c. 1900 photograph. cabinet photograph Part of leporelloalbum with 12 photos of Amsterdam. Amsterdam cardboard. photographic support albumen print sailing-ship, sailing-boat. harbour (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.). rowing-boat, canoe, etc. Oosterdok

Ships in the inner port of Delfzijl, Johannes Gerardus Kramer, 1895 photograph Delfzijl cardboard. photographic support albumen print harbour. ships (in general) Delfzijl

Calcutta; View of Shipping from Hastings Bridge, showing the Steamer "Mauritius" and other vessels. Samuel Bourne (English, 1834 - 1912)

Ships and rowing boats at sea, Adolf Carel Nunnink, after Willem van de Velde, 1833 - 1869 print Four ships and a few rowing boats at sea, on the right the bank. The Hague paper. sea (seascape). sailing-ship, sailing-boat

Toil and Grime. Peter Henry Emerson; English, born Cuba, 1856-1936. Date: 1887. Dimensions: 9.4 × 20.1 cm (image); 24.8 × 30 cm (paper). Photoetching, pl. XI 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.

Description: Suez canal. Location: Egypt asia, egypt, asiathroughalens

Logging: Transportation - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Some sailing ships, Hendrik Abraham Klinkhamer, 1820 - 1872 drawing paper. pencil brush sailing-ship, sailing-boat

Harbor view. Plymouth series. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Plymouth (Mass.)

Boats on the quay 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

Rijkswaterstaat photo collection. Construction of a dam in a river using a work ship with steam drive. undated

U.S. Frigate Portsmouth off New Orleans, La. | Library of Congress

Ships on the Amstel near the Lean Bridge, seen to the North, Amsterdam, Pieter Oosterhuis, 1867 - 1885 cabinet photograph Amsterdam cardboard. paper albumen print bridge in city across river, canal, etc.. ships (in general) - CC - more than one ship Binnen-Amstel. Meager bridge

Fish Wharf, Boston, Mass. , Piers & wharves

U.S. gunboat Choctaw - Mississippi River Fleet. No. 3116, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Mississippi River.

Boats on a water, possibly the Amstel in Amsterdam. Part of topographic album of Dutch villages and cities 1905.

Ships and rowing boats in the port of Singapore; Harbor, s.pore. Part of album with 50 photos of a trip through Southeast Asia.

Ship in a dock of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. In Singapore, seen from the bell tower, G.R. Lambert & Co. (attributed to), c. 1890 - In or Before 1905 photograph Part of photo album of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. In Singapore. Singapore photographic support albumen print shipyard, shipdock. shipbuilding industry. pier, quay, wharf. steamship, motorship. dry-dock, floating-dock Singapore

Ships on the Thames near London, Siebe Johannes ten Cate, 1868 - 1903 print Various ships on the water, including sailing ships and a steamship. On both banks of the river factories with smoking chimneys. paper river. ships (in general). factory in landscape Thames. London

Sailing boats on Thames near London, Adolf Carel Nunnink, after Everhardus Koster, 1859 - 1865 print Sailing boats and a rowing boat on the River Thames. In the background a silhouette of the city of London. The Hague paper. sailing-ship, sailing-boat. city-view in general; 'veduta' London. Thames

Ship on a water, presumably at the Suez Canal. Part of travel album with photos of Germany, Switzerland, the Suez Canal and Dutch East Indies.

Views at Belle Plain Landing, Va., May, 1864 | Library of Congress

Great Yarmouth Harbour; Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936); London, England; 1890; Photogravure; 17.8 × 21.9 cm (7 × 8 5,8 in.)

A Sailing Match at Horning, 1885. Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936)

Sailing boats with freight on the Nile, Maison Bonfils, c. 1870 - c. 1898 photograph Part of travel album with 80 photos from Egypt. Egypt cardboard. paper. photographic support albumen print sailing-ship, sailing-boat Nile. Egypt

TERRY pursues rum-runners. This image depicts the Coast Guard Destroyer TERRY pursuing the French rum-running vessel MISTINGUETT.

Moored boats, Adolf Carel Nunnink, after Maurits Frederik Hendrik de Haas, 1847 - 1865 print Sailing boats moored on the beach. A ship sails at sea in the background. The Hague paper sailing-ship, sailing-boat. beach

The ferry 'Alexandra', Auckland Harbour, 1870s, Auckland, by Edwin Willmott.

View of transports, barges, etc., City Point, Virginia. Civil War Photograph Collection, No. 3332 VA. Harbors, Virginia, Hopewell, 1860-1870, Boats, Virginia, Hopewell, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation.

Chicago River from Kinzie Street bridge. American scenery. Chicago & vicinity. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois, Chicago (Ill.)

Rijkswaterstaat photo collection. Drawing. Balmoral, steam rewards. undated

Moored ships, anonymous, 1880 - 1920 photograph This photo is part of an album. cardboard. photographic support harbour. ships (in general) France

Salford Docks - Timber Ships at Trafford Wharf. G. Herbert & Horace C. Bayley

Boats for anchor in a harbor in France. Part of a French amateur photographer photo album with sights in France, Switzerland and Italy.

Tugboat 'Mercury' from the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. in Singapore; Company's Tug Boat "Mercury". Part of photo album from the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. in Singapore.

Japanese Junks, Nagasaki. Attributed to Kusakabe Kimbei (Japanese, 1841 - 1934)

Photograph of the cannon boats Charon, Goldfinch, Spider, and Speedy in Hamoaze, captured by George Washington Wilson on albumin paper in stereo format.

Sailboat on the Nile at Cairo, LL, c. 1900 - In or Before 1910 photomechanical print Part of photo album of a trip through Southern Europe and the Middle East. Cairo paper collotype sailing-ship, sailing-boat Cairo

U.S. gunboat Agawam and the monitor Saugus, James River, Virginia. No. B81, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, James River.

Calcutta. John Edward Saché (Prussian or British, born Prussia, 1824 - 1882)

Freight ships for anchor, anonymous, c. 1907 - c. 1910 photograph Freight ships for anchor. Part of the loose-leaf photo album with 39 photos of a trip through the Netherlands, ca. 1907-1910. Netherlands cardboard. photographic support freight vessel. harbour Netherlands

Hooghly River. Calcutta. John Edward Saché, photographer (Prussian or British, born Prussia, 1824 - 1882) 1864-1868 View of a number of sailing ships and smaller traditional boats moored by a riverbank. Four men sit on the shore, as a fifth man with a white turban stands near them. (Recto, print) upper left, in brown ink: "1.; Lower center, inscribed in the negative: "39"; (Recto, mount) lower center, in pencil: "Hooghly mostly erased"; Lower center, in brown ink: "Hooghly river. sic Calcutta."; (Verso, mount) lower left, in pencil: "A48.25 (Saché)";

A man and two women on a ship; North Holland Canal 1904..

View of the rear part of a ship decorated with wood carving, in a river, Southeast Asia. .

HMS "Mistletoe" off The Minquiers.. Unknown, photographer negative April 1892, print December 1894 View of the H.M.S. Mistletoe out at sea. (Recto, mount) lower left, handwritten in black ink: "HMS "Mistletoe" off. The Minquiers. April 1892. / ~(92.93.94)~" Lower right, handwritten in black ink: "Enlargement. Decrsuperscript 1894"

View from foot of Whitehall street, looking towards south Brooklyn. The agitation of water in the foreground is occasioned ny a steamboat just passed. Anthony's instantaneous views. No. 5576. 1860. 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.), Harbors , New York (State) , New York, Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)

View of the new port of Singapore with Dok, G.R. Lambert & Co. (attributed to), c. 1870 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in Marseille, Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. Singapore cardboard. paper. photographic support albumen print harbour (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.). dry-dock, floating-dock Singapore

Cairo, Egypt, feluccan Africa moored on the edge of the Nile, facing the city of Giza , 1914 - Egypt - Auguste Léon - (January -February) (French - Le Caire , Egypte , Afrique Felouques amarrées au bord du Nil , face à la ville de Gizeh). River, boat, agglomeration panorama, river transport , lake, Habitat , Architecture , Transport, Egypt, old Cairo, edges of the Nile, -Au 1st plan, boats, -au background, gyzeh

Scenes on Board the "Dart". Helsby & Co.

Sailing ships during the lock in a lock, anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Family Album with photos of Wijnhandel Kraaij & Co. Bordeaux-Amsterdam. photographic support sluice, weir. sailing-ship, sailing-boat

A Dress Parade of the Seventeenth New York Made 1861 United States. Albumen print . Unknown

Ships on the beach at Scheveningen (possibly to a drawing); Scheveningen. Beach face .. Part of photo album with recordings of cities in North and South Holland and Utrecht.

Poole, Harbour, being almost landlocked has been called the 'Lake of Dorset'. Date: 1900s

Sailing ship on the water. Part of family album including photos of Wijnhandel Kraaij & Co. Bordeaux-Amsterdam.

Ships at sea, William Unger, after Willem van de Velde (II), 1847 - 1889 print Germany paper. etching sailing-ship, sailing-boat. landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone)

. Sailing ship on the water, with Amsterdam in the background

View of the port of Yangon, Myanmar, P. Klier, c. 1885 - c. 1886 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in Burma. Yangon paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print harbour (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.). quay (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage) Yangon

Harbour cabinet photographs, photographic prints, studio portraits

Sailing ships on the water, anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Family Album with photos of Wijnhandel Kraaij & Co. Bordeaux-Amsterdam. photographic support sailing-ship, sailing-boat. landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone)

You Henry Jacob, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Floating tap Vos. Photo stuck on cardboard with technical information about the ship in German, French, Spanish and English. Part of the folder with 44 photos of dredgers of the company A. Bos & J.P. Heijblom in Dordrecht. Dordrecht photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print dredge, dredging machine. machine driven by steam. steamship, motorship (+ propulsion of vehicle, ship, etc. by steam)

Adamson, James, Three Sailing Vessels, Including the Encore, Yvonne and Woodcock, Launched, recto - embossed, This photograph is part of an album., photograph, photo, album sheet, photos, Rothesay.HB, height 189 mm, width 279 mm, photographer, 1880 - 1900, photographic paper, photo paper, albumen print, albumine print

Face over a river (), The Netherlands. Face over a river (), The Netherlands, with a sailing ship and in the background a factory, a steamship and a harbor ()

Fishing boat at sea with six people on board, Eugène Modeste Edmond Lepoittevin, 1832 print printer: Parispublisher: Parispublisher: London paper sea and coastal fishery. sailing-ship, sailing-boat

Yacht, Pemberton Hull. Yacht, Pemberton Hull

Ship sails through the Suezkanaal, C. & G. Zangaki (attributed to), c. 1880 - c. 1900 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of Germany, Switzerland, the Suez Canal and the Dutch East Indies. Suez Canal paper. photographic support gelatin silver print canal. sailing-ship, sailing-boat Suez Canal

Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant, episode I, section I, the Norse galley in Plymouth Harbor , Anniversaries, Historical pageants, Scandinavians. Plymouth Tercentenary Photographs

Several Battleships at Battle: Row Boats with Figures, Joseph Cartwright, c.1789-1829, British, undated, Pen and black ink, gray ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, blued white, laid paper, mounted on, moderately thick, smooth, beige, wove paper, Mount: 12 7/8 × 19 7/8 inches (32.7 × 50.5 cm) and Sheet: 11 x 18 7/8in. (27.9 x 47.9cm)

Waterkant and Rede in Paramaribo, Jonkheer Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest, After Gerard Voorduin, 1860 - 1862 print View from the water on the waterfront in Paramaribo. All kinds of different types of vessels on the water. The following streets are indicated on the plate: Saramaccastraat, Steenbakkersgracht, Breestraat, De Waag, Keizersstraat, Kromme Elleboogstraat and Oranjestraat. Part of the sheet metal 'Gezigten from Neerland's West-Indien'. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Utrechtpublisher: Amsterdam paper lacquering prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage) Suriname. Suriname River. Waterfront. Paramaribo

Boats on the beach and in the harbor, Petrus Paulus Schiedges (I), 1847 - 1865 print Sailing boats moored on the beach and in the harbor. In the background, a steamboat, sailing ship and boats sail on the water. The Hague paper sailing-ship, sailing-boat. harbour

Sailing ships including a catamaran for anchor at the coast of the Dutch East Indies.Part or Photo album from The Kleiterp-Vermeulen Family With Recordings from the Dutch East Indies.

Creating a fishing vessel; Getting Ready For Fishing.

Face over a river (), The Netherlands, with a sailing ship and a mill.

View of boats, Chicago River. George F. Gates (American, about 1837 - 1904)

Ships in a port; State railways on Java. Ships in a harbor and to the quay, probably tandjong perak, the port of Surabaya. Part of a group of 62 photos in a box with the inscription "State Railways on Java" from 1888.

Sloop, ship and buoy on tandjong priok reason; Farewell to Batavia (edge of Tandjong Priok). Part of album with photos of Batavia and from Ursulinen sisters.

Chinese Junks moored at Singapore Date: circa 1908

Pontoon bridge across the James River, with men sitting and standing in the foreground and ships at anchor in the river. Additional, Pontoon bridge, across the James, June 1864., c. 1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865., 19 x 26 cm. Albumen prints

Alabama - Mobile Bay. Mobile Depot, Alabama. Choctaw Point.

Blanket boats. A.J. Russell (American, 1830 - 1902)

Taken January 26, 1943: Wrecks in Tripoli Harbor, Tripolitania, Libya, after the Allied bombing attacks on the port. Thousands of tons of Axis shipping and supplies were destroyed in attacks on the harbor.

Sailboat, presumably in the waters of Sydney. Part of travel album with pictures of sights in Sydney.

HR. Ms. 'De Ruyter' and crew in a dock from the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. in Singapore; H.N.M.s. "De Ruyter". Part of photo album from the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. in Singapore.

Le Havre. Jean Victor Warnod (French, 1812 - after 1886)

Constantinople Istanbul, Turkey. Ships, and row boats in the port of the Golden Horn in central Istanbul. Vintage Photography 1901

Sailing ship in Storm at Sea, Charles Rochussen, in Or Before 1843 print The Hague paper. sailing-ship, sailing-boat. storm at sea

Sailing ship on the dry at Moonlight, Petrus Paulus Schiedges (I), in Or Before 1852 print Along the water is a sailing ship on the bank. Ships sail on the water and in the background. Left houses and in the background a mill. The Hague paper sailing-ship, sailing-boat. river bank

Pilot Boat, J.C. Cousins (#310). Carleton Watkins (American, 1829 - 1916)

A Cape Ann Fishing Schooner, Gloucester, Mass. still image. Postcards. 1898 - 1931. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Fishing boats , Massachusetts , Gloucester

The Regatta.. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)

Ships in a dock of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. In Singapore with around staff, G.R. Lambert & Co. (attributed to), c. 1890 - In or Before 1905 photograph Part of photo album of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Ltd. In Singapore. Singapore photographic support albumen print shipyard, shipdock. shipbuilding industry. pier, quay, wharf. dock labourer. dry-dock, floating-dock. steamship, motorship. sailing-ship, sailing-boat Singapore

Ismaïlia, Egypt, Africa the Suez Canal , 1918 - Near East, Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (January 9 -October 6) (French - Ismaïlia , Egypte , Afrique Le canal de Suez). River, desert, boat, commercial architecture, home, river transport , lake, Habitat , Architecture , Transport

Fourth of July in and about New-York. Scene On The Bay During The Regatta.. Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co. (American, founded 1862, merged 1902)

Morocco, November 1906. Mahon - the French steamer Isaac Pereire - in the center - next to the beach of the Tala Mosque where it ran aground.

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