High Pressure Steamboat Mayflower. First Class Packet between St. Louis and New Orleans on the Mississippi River. Capt. Joseph Blorne

by Charles Parsons, Nathaniel Currier

$4,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

New York: Currier & Ives, 1855. Hand-colored lithograph approx. 29 x 19½ by sight, and not examined out of frame ; a few slight traces of browning, but in all a fine example with strong coloring; attractively matted and in a curly maple frame. Currier & Ives produced more than 200 lithographs depicting the steamboats that navigated the nation’s great rivers, such as the Hudson and the Mississippi. The boats were celebrated as examples

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