A beached sail-powered workboat appears to be a small dory or beach-landing skiff with a lug sail and a prominent bowsprit, likely used for inshore fishing in coastal New England. A boy wearing a knit cap peeks from the bow while a man in woolen work clothes and a flat cap stands on the sand holding heavy tow ropes. The hull bears a partially legible painted name that appears to read "...FRIGATE", and the canvas sail shows patches and coiled hawsers consistent with early commercial fishing gear. Archivist notes indicate a 4x5 glass-negative capture, placing the scene circa the late 19th to early 20th century with period-typical working apparel and rigging.

Three-masted sailing ship appears to be a late 19th-century barque with yards furled and a pronounced clipper-style bow, moored at a timbered Boston waterfront pier in 1890 from the Briggs Collection. A small steam tug or tender sits alongside the hull, likely steam-driven given its low profile and funnel-like silhouette. Wharf buildings are wooden industrial sheds and a tall hoist or coal elevator appears on the quay, typical of Victorian port infrastructure. A few dockhands in period work clothes, caps and long coats consistent with 1890s labor dress, are visible on deck and the pier, indicating active commercial handling.

A large steam-powered bucket-wheel dredger mounted on a work scow sits alongside a rocky canal bank, its inclined conveyor and massive toothed wheel appearing prominently. A tall cylindrical smokestack and belt-driven drums suggest a boiler-and-steam-engine powerplant, likely circa 1900-1920. Several men in plain work shirts and caps, likely African American, maneuver small wooden skiffs and tend lines from the scow. Handrails, lifebuoys, winch booms and a stern-mounted crane or spoil elevator are visible, indicating an active canal-cleaning operation rather than a pleasure vessel.

This shot of two African American women on the top of a ship in Florida's port overlooks a buisy port with a building in the background reading The Florida Times -Union Citizen also a Coal building and Dick Oldham Stables.

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This is a port circa 1900 ..

A large twin-funnel steamship with two tall smokestacks, fore and aft masts, and deck cargo booms passes offshore, likely an early 20th-century ocean liner or passenger-cargo steamship circa 1900-1910. A gaff-rigged sailboat is visible to port while a stone or concrete pier in the foreground holds several figures. The people on the pier appear to be wearing Edwardian-era clothing - men in suits and hats, women in long skirts holding parasols or umbrellas. Pier fittings such as bollards and timber fenders are visible, and a visible watermark reading "Copyright GPC-Limited" crosses the print; archival note indicates a celluloid 3x5 source.

Two men dressed for fishing circa 1908. see documentation.

A boat called Twig is in a beautifull body of water this is a cropped pic so the subject can be viewed better .

A speaker by the river is watched by invited guests and others police man on the bridge.

Wooden River boat A.M. Smith..

River ferry not a perfect negative but a cool shot

Boston Harbor Ship 1920

Boston Harbor Random Ship circa 1900..

Tug Boat In port with men working circa 1890.