Buffalo, New York. "Leg" being lowered from the tower of a grain elevator drawing near grain by means of an endless belt of buckets

Buffalo, New York. Inside the nearly emptied hatch of a grain boat from Duluth unloading wheat at a grain elevator. The "leg" is drawing grain into the tower on an endless belt of buckets

Buffalo, New York. A scooper unloading a grain boat from Duluth at a grain elevator on the Erie Canal. Scoopers are hired at each port to aid the crew in loading and unloading. They guide the ropes of the shovel which scoops the grain into range of the "leg" which draws grain into elevator by means

Buffalo, New York. Half-empty hold of a grain boat from Deluth unloading wheat at a grain elevator on the Erie Canal. In middle ground is the "leg" which draws grain into the tower by means of an endless belt of buckets

Buffalo, New York. Grain boat from Deluth unloading wheat at a grain elevator on the Erie Canal

Buffalo, New York. Looking down in the half-empty hatch of a grain boat from Duluth, unloading wheat in a grain elevator on the Erie Canal. Ropes guide the shovel which scoops grain into an area where the "leg" can draw it into a tower by means of an endless belt of buckets

View from the pilot house of a grain boat from Deluth 8d18988v

Buffalo, New York. Inside the nearly-emptied hatch of a Duluth grain boat unloading wheat in a grain elevator on the Erie Canal. Men who work here are called scoopers. Here they are guiding the ropes of a shovel which scoops grain into range of the "leg" which drives grain into the tower of an endle

Buffalo, New York. Grain boat from Duluth unloading wheat at a grain elevator on the Erie Canal. Men sit on the edge of an open hatch to guide the ropes of the shovel which scoops the grain into the hatch where it can be drawn by the "leg" into the tower on an endless belt of buckets