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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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A lithograph with hand-colored details depicting two paddlewheel steamboats, the Danna and the Fulton, racing at full steam under moonlight on the Mississippi River. The left of the image includes a stand of trees with spectators and men building structures. The printer's signature below the center of the image reads, "Publ. & print. by Th. Kelly, 17 Barclay St. N.Y." Title is printed in the lower center.
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Image of the steamboats Baltic and Diana sailing up the Mississippi River at night; raft along a small dock being loaded with lumber near trees in the foreground, one additional steamboat on the river in the distance.
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Image of African American men sitting on a dock along a levee dancing, singing, playing music on a banjo, and playing cards in the foreground with a bustling port in the background showing horse-drawn wagons, cargo in barrels, crates, and bales being unloaded from steamboats lined up along the Mississippi River, including ones presumably named "Jacob Strader" and "Memphis"; some warehouses appear to say "St. Paul."
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Image of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, along the Chesapeake Bay during the American Civil War; military tents stretch along the shore with the fort behind; sailboats and steamboats sail along the bay with a lighthouse in the foreground.
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Image of paddle steamboats at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River in Hardin County, Tennessee, including steamboats "Cincinnati & Memphis Packet Silver Moon" and "Cincinnati & Memphis Packet Glendale" along bank during the American Civil War; military camp tents visible among trees in background.
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Image of forty eye-level views of streets, buildings and businesses in Ironton, Ohio, surrounding a view of Ironton from the Kentucky shore, steamboats visible along the Ohio River; each scene is captioned.
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