In September 1609, Henry Hudson, sailing in the "Half Moon," discovered the Hudson River. [front caption] (1front) [h0149ac1]

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Title	In September 1609, Henry Hudson, sailing in the "Half Moon" discovered the Hudson River. [front caption] (1front) [h0149ac1]
Creator	Design Copyright 1909 By WM. Miller, N.Y. [Indicated on front only]
Subject--front	Cliffs Clouds Coastlines Flags Grasses Portraits Ropes Ship equipment & rigging Color postcards Sailboats Sailing ships Rivers
Description--Front	The Dutch sailboat Half Moon is depicted in the center of the image on a clear day on the Hudson River. It is surrounded by water on all sides and cliffs are prominent in the background. An oval inset portrait of the river's discoverer, Henry Hudson, is displayed on the upper left hand corner of the postcard.
Coverage--geographic	Hudson River, New York
Date Original	(c) 1909
Publisher	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies--Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Language	eng
Source Height	3.5"
Source Width	5.5"
Source	Waterways Post Card Collection of Thomas T. Surprenant: Hudson River
Type	Text; Image
Digitization Specifications	Archive masters were scanned at 600 ppi, 24 bit color using a Canon CanoScan 8800F and SilverFast Ai scanning software and saved as uncompressed TIFFs using Photoshop CS3 and Mac OS 10.4. Derivative access files were saved as medium quality JPEGs, 150dpi, 1000 pixels on the long dimension. Thumbnails were generated automatically by CONTENTdm.
Date Digital	2009-02-18
Resource Identifier	h0149ac1.jpg
Format	JPEG
Format [Medium]	Postcards
File Size	215691 Bytes
Height (of Digital image)	626
Width (of Digital Image)	1000
Color Space	sRGB
Rights Management	Contact Thomas T. Surprenant, ebeltoms@nyc.rr.com
Contributing Institution	Graduate School of Library and Information Studies--Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Digitization Team	GSLIS 757, Digital Imaging, Spring 2009: Michelle Shukri, Michelle Hausman
OCLC number	430935763

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In September 1609, Henry Hudson, sailing in the "Half Moon," discovered the Hudson River. [front caption] (1front) [h0149ac1]

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