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Lot 587
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$500 -
750
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$344
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[TRANSPORTATION]. Albany, Troy, and Intermediate Places...The Low Pressure Steamboat Swallow. [New York?]: N.p., between 1835 and 1845.
9 5/8 x 11 3/16 in. (closely trimmed with loss of first line of text, minor toning or offsetting); framed to 11 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (not examined out of frame).
The Swallow, also known as the "Hudson River Flyer" was the first clipper steamboat ever built. Constructed in 1835 by William Capes in Brooklyn, she reached speeds not before seen. Tragically, the Swallow was destroyed during a night journey on 7 April 1845 between Albany and New York City when she struck a large rock, and fire broke out. The tragedy was memorialized by a Currier & Ives lithograph.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents