| Title | Laid up for winter - canal-boat colony in Coenties Slip, East River. |
| Subjects | Erie Canal New York (State) Coenties Slip (N.Y.) East River (N.Y.) Canal-boats Commerce Inland trade Family life Schooners Illustration |
| Description | Newspaper engraving found on page 104 of Harper's Weekly, dated February 16, 1884. Because winter travel on the canal was difficult, many canal boats laid up along the New York waterways. This scene depicts everyday activities among the canal families. |
| Date | NULL |
| Source | Original document: Laid up for winter - canal-boat colony in Coenties Slip, East River. Drawn by E.J. Meeker, Harper's Weekly. Vol. XXVIII. No. 1417. New York: February 16,1884. .ACCESSION##; EC0044 |
| Language | eng |
| Digitization Specifics | Scanned using Epson Expression 10000XL Graphic Arts Scanner; master tiff file 18,179,456 bytes; bit depth of master tiff file 24 bit color; spatial resolution of master tiff file 600 ppi; spatial dimension of master tiff file 100% of original; created using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; OCR files created using Abbyy FineReader 7.0. Images created using Dell Optiplex GX 280 P 4 3.8 GHz 1GB RAM computer. |
| Institution | City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center. |
| Relation | IsFormatOf |
| METS | View Record |
