CSNY really has a wealth of images and other artifacts preserved in the collection. It is a mine for folks some day to explore. Here’s one image from a set of several thousand postcards from over a century ago. It shows Queen City, built in Buffalo in 1906. She was 53.2′ long and 13.3′ wide and carried a crew of two.

On this particular Tuesday, however, more than half a dozen

people, dapper ones, were crowded onto the bow. I wonder what the occasion was, here a few miles east of Lockport locks. That’s the Day Road Bridge, itself only a few years old at the time.

Anyone have ideas?

About the sharpness of this image, the original is much clearer. In the interest of blogging frequently, I use low-tech reproduction techniques.