"Steamers Loading Exports in the Atlantic Basin" One of a large series of picture postcards published by the Brooklyn Eagle in the early 1900s.  In addition to steamers, numerous barges - both square and Dutch style of rounded ones - also fill...

Frank Zotti, advertised in The New York Herald, October 1905 ,  that his U.S. Steamer BROOKLYN would debark from the Atlantic Basin to Fayal (Azores), Naples, and Genoa.  Franjo (Frank) Zotti (1872–1947) immigrated to New York...

On August 11, 1845, when word came by telegraph that she was arriving, thousands rushed to see the S.S. GREAT BRITAIN complete her record-breaking transatlantic voyage. One of the popular viewing places was the Atlantic Steamship pier at the foot of...