Details
Creator Klauprecht & Menzel, lithographer.
Title Steamer Missouri. [graphic] / Klauprecht & Menzel lith Cincinnati.
Publisher Cincinnati: For the Family Magazine
Date [1841]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 18 x 27 cm.(7 x 10.5 in.)
Description View of the steamboat travelling down a river. Includes African Americans dancing on deck near a crewman carrying logs; passengers walking on the roof of the boat; and dwellings lining the riverbank. The steamer ran in the St. Louis - New Orleans trade; served in the Mexican American War; and was referenced in the Mark Twain novel "Tom Sawyer." Ship was destroyed by fire 1851.
Notes Date from accompanying sellers label.
Gift of David Doret.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Klauprecht & Menzel, a partnership between Emil Klauprecht and Adophus Menzel , operated 1839-1855.
Subject Missouri (Steamboat)
Steamboats -- United States.
African Americans -- United States.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Peridocial illustrations -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| GC - Transportation [P.2004.44.27]
Accession number P.2004.44.27