Details
Title Steamboat A. Johnson, [St. Louis Keokuk Packet Co.] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1866
Date [ca. 1866]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View of the sidewheel steamboat Andy Johnson docked at a pier on the Mississippi River. A sign following the curvature on the side wheel reads, "St. Louis & Keokuk Packet Co." Another sign displayed over the entrance to a small building on the dock advertises, "Chicago & Keokuk Railroad Packet. Daily for Quincy." Lumber is piled near the dock in the foreground. The Andy Johnson purportedly carried President Andrew Johnson on his famous speech-making trip from Alton to St. Louis on his "swing around the circle" tour in September of 1866.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Mint green mount with square corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject St. Louis & Keokuk Packet Co.
Steamboats -- Mississippi River (Mo.)
Side wheelers -- Mississippi River (Mo.)
Piers & wharves -- Mississippi River (Mo.)
Geographic subject Mississippi River.
St. Louis (Mo.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Non-Philadelphia - Missouri [P.8709.6]
Accession number P.8709.6