The NYS canals connected salt water with the Great Lakes as well as inland ports with each other and the big waters at either end.  So it’s no surprise that the CSNY collections include photos of Great Lakes vessels, ports, and commerce.  Here Great Lakes ore carrier Quincy A. Shaw discharges cargo in October 1916.  Any guesses where?  Any guesses on the duration of her cargo carrying days?  Why was it called Quincy A. Shaw?

Here’s the location.

Those ore unloading machines were called Huletts, a system now gone.

Mr. Shaw was the first president of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, whose ore was transported in the vessel.  Launched in 1911, Shaw was renamed in 1931 as Edward W. Mudge and finally scrapped in a Lake Superior port in 1963.

For another vessel–a whaleback– in the port of Buffalo around the same time, click here.