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[Riverboats on the Ohio and lower Mississippi: GRAND REPUBLIC, steaming, broadside] – Antique Print

[Riverboats on the Ohio and lower Mississippi: GRAND REPUBLIC, steaming, broadside] — historic photograph
[Riverboats on the Ohio and lower Mississippi: GRAND REPUBLIC, steaming, broadside]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Step back in time with [Riverboats on the Ohio and lower Mississippi: GRAND REPUBLIC, steaming, broadside], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Riverboats on the Ohio and lower Mississippi: GRAND REPUBLIC, steaming, broadside]

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A broadside view of the steamboat GRAND REPUBLIC, shown under way, puts the vessel's full length and layered decks on display. Steamboats like her carried passengers and freight along the Ohio and lower Mississippi rivers, and the trade was central to river towns through much of the nineteenth century. The caption card gives no date, but the upper cabins, pilothouse, and paddle-wheel arrangement reflect the riverboat designs of that era. The print is most useful for seeing how these working boats were laid out above the waterline.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,110 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121570

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