American steamboats on the Hudson: passing the highlands – Vintage Print
![American steamboats on the Hudson: passing the highlands, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1874. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/22/22cb68586c92-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures American steamboats on the Hudson: passing the highlands in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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American steamboats on the Hudson: passing the highlands
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Steamboats passing through the Hudson Highlands, the stretch of river where the water cuts between steep hills north of New York City, is the subject here. Currier & Ives issued this lithograph in New York in 1874, during the firm's long run of popular views of American river travel. The Hudson was among the busiest steamboat routes in the country, and by the 1870s its large side-wheel passenger boats carried city residents up the river for excursions and resort stays. The print is catalogued in Gale Research's Currier & Ives catalog raisonné, which makes it a useful reference for collectors tracing the firm's output of the period.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0210. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,024 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155680 |
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