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Midnight race on the Mississippi

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1869-1870.
Call number: priPEF 21
Creator: Kelly, Thos (active 1867-1868)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Roger Genser, April 2023.

Midnight race on the Mississippi

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Image of two steamboats, the Danna (possibly a misspelling of "Diana") and the Fulton racing along the Mississippi River; spectators can be seen standing along a small dock at left near a stand of trees.

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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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James Stuart Hung by the Vigilance Committee on Market St. Wharf, on the 11th of July 1851

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Image is of a multitude of men crowding the wharf and clambering over the rigging and deck of the Byron to see Stuart hanged from an improvised gibbet near the end of the wharf. There are a few spectators in small boats and some on the buildings in the background. The text below the image describes the events of July 11th, 1851. "Publ. & Lith. by Justh Quirot & Co. Calif. Corn. Montg. Sts. S.F."--text, below image. Paper color: gray.

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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 the race car Touraine, driven by George Joeriman, on a dirt road in Santa Monica, California, with spectators watching during the Vanderbilt Cup Race.

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