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High Pressure Steamboat Mayflower, First Class Packet between St. Louis and New Orleans on the Mississippi River
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Hand-colored lithograph
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Adele S. Colgate 1962
Title: High Pressure Steamboat Mayflower, First Class Packet between St. Louis and New Orleans on the Mississippi River
Description:
Hand-colored lithograph.
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