Steamer Penobscot: one of the fleet forming the line between Boston, Bangor & Mt. Desert – Historic Print
(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 antique lithograph of Steamer Penobscot: one of the fleet forming the line between Boston, Bangor & Mt. Desert brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Steamer Penobscot: one of the fleet forming the line between Boston, Bangor & Mt. Desert
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Steamer Penobscot was one of the boats running the coastal route that linked Boston with Bangor and Mount Desert, the island resort that drew summer visitors from the cities. Currier & Ives published this chromolithograph in New York around 1883, and Charles R. Parsons signed the image itself. Steamboat portraits like this were popular household prints, offering a view of the vessels that carried passengers and freight along New England's shoreline before the automobile reshaped summer travel.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1883. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Artist: Charles R. Parsons (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6145 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,085 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175551 |
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