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Title
High pressure steamboat Mayflower
Creator
Parsons, Charles, 1821-1910, artist
N. Currier (Firm), printer
N. Currier (Firm), publisher
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1855
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
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Description
Image of the steamboat Mayflower sailing on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana; passengers visible on four decks; another steam vessel visible around the bend at left.
"New York, Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street."--text, bottom center margin. "Ch. Parsons del."--text, bottom left margin. "Lith. N. Currier."--text, bottom right margin. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y."--text, bottom center margin. "Capt. Joseph Browne / First class packet between St. Louis and new Orleans on the Mississippi River."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 61.6 x 82.87 cm (24 1/4 x 32 5/8 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_MAR_001450
404100
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2817
Language
English
Subject
Mississippi River--Pictorial works
Steamboats--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
Maritime
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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