Schooner on Lake Champlain

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Parent Collections: Photographs of Vergennes (Vt.)
Title: Schooner on Lake Champlain
Supplied Title: Schooner on Lake Champlain
Date Created: 1888
Description: Schooner-rigged canal boat off the mouth of Otter Creek. Boats of this type were numerous during the latter half of the 19th century and many a steamboatman got his early training on these schooners. Capt. George Rushlow, for many years general manager of the Champlain Transportation Co's fleet on Lake Champlain and Lake George, got his captain's title as master of the Canal schooner "Mike." This picture from guide book of 1888.
Subject: Boats and boating.
Transportation.
Champlain, Lake.
Ferrisburgh (Vt.).
Type of Resource: still image
Genre: color slides
Extent: 1 slide
Place of Publcation: Ferrisburgh (Vt.)
Source Document Location: Bixby Memorial Free Library.
Shelf Location: Box 1, Photographs of Vergennes (Vt.), Local History/Genealogy
Note [Digital Version]: 2011-01-24, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries
Access Conditions: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Identifier (local): bixver01_054
Digital Format: image/tiff