Shorpy Photo The Icemobile 1905

I was browsing Shorpy photos. This caught my eye. Best viewed in full size.



Icemobile: 1905 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive

That's an oldie! This picture, or a similar one caught my eye about a year ago and it led to one hell of an interesting thread.

Here it is.

[[Ended up a bit nasty, about copyright and such.... But stick to the boat links.)

Wasn't the floating restaurant behind Cobo named the Lansdowne too? Was it the same one that's in Shorpy pic?

That is indeed the same Lansdowne, recently scrapped in Ohio. If I remember right, the engines dated to 1867, but the iron hull was a bit newer, 1880's maybe?