# 1. "Sunset View From the Steamboat Hotel-Buffalo Harbor 1868"
Ships of Sail and Steam greatly contributed to Buffalo's development as the "Queen City of the Great Lakes". The painting, "Sunset View from the Steamboat Hotel" is a reciprocal view of the painting "Buffalo Harbor 1870: When Grain was King."

This view above the rooftops overlooks lower Main Street where the Hazard Block building framed the busy pedestrian traffic at the elevated boardwalk and street levels. Travellers to Toledo, Detroit and ports west are seen entering the arch for the dock where the passengers could board steamboats. The Hazard, Brown, Watson, Bennett, and Reed grain elevators filter the early sunset light onto the shipping canal. The original Buffalo Lighthouse stands at the distant harbor entrance as you view the Canadian shore of Lake Erie in the background. The unusual cupola in the foreground, capped the Steamboat Hotel and gave this building an impressive vantage point from which to look out over Buffalo's bustling grain milling port. Buffalo by 1868 was the largest grain milling city in the world and truly the Queen City of the Great Lakes.

Signed and Numbered Edition of 450 lithographs on archival paper.

Image Size: 25" x 20"; unf...$350.00