Mick Hartley

More industrial Lake Erie port views from the turn of the last century (previously). 

Ca. 1900. "Anchor Line docks and Penna. R.R. coal & ore docks, Erie, Pennsylvania." In two parts:

[Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Company]

Best seen full size. 

Photographic technology may have advanced in all sorts of ways in the 116 years since, but the quality of the lenses hasn't got any better. Wonderfully precise detail.