I took this photo of a photo in a canal office the other week, taken May 1915.
Here’s a photo of lock E5 being built, seven years earlier than the photo of Schenectady above. This is one of thousands of photos in the Digital Collections of the New York State Archives.
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October 9, 2016 at 12:27 pm
William Lafferty
Schenectady was built as the Geo. W. Aldridge at Cohoes in 1896 and served the State of New York until 1929. 60 x 15 x 6; 31 gt, 21 nt.