On August 17, 1808, the first steamboat, Rob't Fulton's "Clermont" [portion of front caption] (1front) [h0182ac1]

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Title	On August 17, 1808, the first steamboat, Rob't Fulton's "Clermont" [portion of front caption] (1front) [h0182ac1]
Creator	DESIGN COPYRIGHT 1909 BY WM MILLER, N.Y. [indicated on front only]
Subject--front	Clouds Coastlines Flags Grasses Hills Mountains Portraits Railings Reflections Ropes Ship equipment & rigging Smoke Smokestacks Trees Waterfronts People Color postcards Sailboats Steamboats Rivers
Description--Front	Front caption on original reads: "On August 17, 1808, the first steamboat, Rob't Fulton's "Clermont" started its famous trip up the Hudson River, and on Aug. 19th, arrived at Albany." There are green mountains or hills in the background. A portrait of Robert Fulton is on the upper left corner of the postcard.
Coverage--geographic	Hudson River, New York and New Jersey
Date Original	© 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 88800F and SiverFast Ai scanning software and saved as uncompressed TIFFs using Photoshop CS4 and Mac OS 10.5. Derivative access files were saved as medium quality JPEGs, 150dpi, 1000 pixels on the long dimension. Thumbnails were generated automatically by CONTENTdm.
Date Digital	2009-09-24
Resource Identifier	h0182ac1.jpg
Format	Image
Format [Medium]	Postcards
File Size	153947 Bytes
Checksum	1190361057
Height (of Digital image)	641 pixels
Width (of Digital Image)	1000 pixels
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, Fall 2009: Paul DuBois, Ben Gocker
OCLC number	617561349

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