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Midnight race on the Mississippi
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Midnight race on the Mississippi
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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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Scene on the upper Mississippi
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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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Levee scene on the Mississippi
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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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Pat Rooney’s New York Star Combination
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Image of caricatures of Irish comedian Pat Rooney driving a horse-drawn carriage with a male performer and a female performer as passengers past a crowd of spectators standing before an opera house that carries a flag labeled "Independent Candidate Pat Rooney" towards the White House in Washington, D.C., while caricatures of political figures sit and watch in the lower right foreground (presumably, from left to right, Thomas Nast, John A. Logan, Roscoe Conkling, James Blaine, Benjamin Franklin Butler, and William Tecumseh Sherman); date sheet for a show on October 30, [1884], presumably at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted to bottom of image.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. The Milwaukee and Mississippi Valley route to the great north-west
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Image of a map of a portion of the Midwestern United States showing railroad routes of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and connecting lines centered and bordered with promotional text, lists of railway stations, and six landscape vignettes captioned "Fort Snelling, Minn."; Dells of the Wisconsin. - Inkstand & Sugar Bowl."; "Templar Rock, Lake Pepin."; Jaws of the Dells."; "The Maiden's Rock, on Lake Pepin." with an image of a Native American in a headdress in the foreground overlooking a railroad train and steamboats; and "Vizor Ledge, east of Standing Rock."; map verso contains panels with promotional text, timetables, a "Map of the Business Districts of Chicago" and two vignettes on the fold-up map cover captioned, "Dells of the Wisconsin. - Lone Rock from Below." and "Dells of Wisconsin. - Inkstand and Sugar Bowl."
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Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD
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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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