This might initially seem like a lost world, but you’d be surprised to learn that you may have seen the lock, which looks very different now. Answer at the end of the post.

If the photographer who took this was clairvoyant, he would have been looking at the NYS Thruway beyond the lock. This is looking WEST.

Here’s a contemporary view.

Another image from the collection shows this dredge working in Port Byron.

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