U.S. Mail Steam Ship Company's Ships. Ohio and Georgia

Object summary

Title: U.S. Mail Steam Ship Company's Ships. Ohio and Georgia
Object ID: CC-E-0009
Date made: 1860
Place made: United States, New York
Lithographer: Endicott & Co.
Publisher: Menger, Louis R.
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

colored lithograph of two U.S. Mail steamships and the vessel Romer. U.S. mail steamship lines in the nineteenth century were established to provide rapid transportation and communication with the newly acquired western territories.

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: recto
Text: 1850

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: [drawings]

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: 13 or 14

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Menger, Louis R.

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Endicott & Co.

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