It’s a canalside scene,  a man leaning on a dock structure stands back to the photographer to the left and a car is parked nearer a vessel to the right.  See any other folks?  Guess at a date?

Here’s a closer up of the car.  There’s someone leaning out of the driver’s seat, and a man inside the vessel looking at something on the pier, not the driver.

This dated photo, taken from the waterside shows the same “barge” Acacia in a larger context, with tug Alice R and another barge Jesse.

Zooming in a little, I see stacked boxes inside the open door of Jesse and 

in the background a building with a large sign Gilmore Hotel and Stables.  Records show that around the same era a Gilmore Hotel existed in Schenectady.

I found nothing in the late nineteens in MVUS for an Alice R.  Note at least two crewmen–one tall and the other short– on the bow of the tug; unlike the people on the pier, these two are looking at the camera.  Too bad the photographer lacked a digital camera with a zoom lens . . . yes, I’m joking, but

I’d love to know more about this scene.