ON AUGUST 17, 1808, THE FIRST STEAMBOAT, ROB'T FULTON 'S "CLERMONT" STARTED ITS FAMOUS TRIP UP THE HUDSON RIVER, AND ON AUG. 19, ARRIVED AT ALBANY [front caption] (1front) [h0002ac1]

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Title	ON AUGUST 17, 1808, THE FIRST STEAMBOAT, ROB'T FULTON 'S "CLERMONT" STARTED ITS FAMOUS TRIP UP THE HUDSON RIVER, AND ON AUG. 19, ARRIVED AT ALBANY [front caption] (1front) [h0002ac1]
Creator	DESIGN COPYRIGHT 1909 BY WM, MILLER, N.Y. [indicated on front only]
Subject--front	Flags Mountains People Portraits Ship equipment & rigging Smoke Steam engines Color postcards Sailboats Side wheelers Steamboats Rivers
Description--Front	Unidentified artist's portrayal of the steamboat "Clermont's" historic trip via the Hudson river to Albany August 17 - August 19, 1808. The name Clermont is indicated on the bow with oval inset portrait of Robert Fulton at the side of the card. Printing information: card number (24381) [indicated on front side only]. Trademarks: curved display with (DESIGN COPYRIGHT) top, (1909 by) center ,and (WM, MILLER, N.Y.) at bottom [lindicated front side only].
Coverage--geographic	Hudson River, New York
Date Original	1909?
Publisher	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Language	eng
Source Height	3.5"
Source Width	5.5"
Source	Waterways Post Card Collection of Thomas T. Surprenant: Hudson River
Type	Text; Image
Digitization Specifications	Archive masters were scanned at 600 ppi, 24 bit color using a Canon CanoScan 8800F and CanoScan Scangear scanning software and saved as uncompressed TIFFs using Photoshop CS3 and Mac OS 10.4. Derivative access files were saved as medium quality JPEGs, 150dpi, 1000 pixels on the long dimension. Thumbnails were generated automatically by CONTENTdm.
Date Digital	2008-10-28
Resource Identifier	h0002ac1.jpg
Format	JPG
Format [Medium]	Postcards
File Size	142.14 KB
Height (of Digital image)	654
Width (of Digital Image)	1000
Color Space	RGB
Rights Management	Contact Thomas T. Surprenant, ebeltoms@nyc.rr.com
Contributing Institution	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Digitization Team	GSLIS 790, Digital Imaging Fall 2008: Samantha J. Alberts, Nola Thacker
OCLC number	430935942

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ON AUGUST 17, 1808, THE FIRST STEAMBOAT, ROB'T FULTON 'S "CLERMONT" STARTED ITS FAMOUS TRIP UP THE HUDSON RIVER, AND ON AUG. 19, ARRIVED AT ALBANY [front caption] (1front) [h0002ac1]

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