Steamboat Reindeer - Hudson River Sidewheeler - Vintage Maritime Print Florida_Keys_Map 1865 — a memorial lithograph

1865 — a memorial lithograph issued in 1866

captured at the high tide of American maritime ambition when clipper hulls and whaling fleets carried the young republic's commerce to every meridian

April 1st 1865 (1886)

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A waypoint of the open road preserved in a linen-finish postcard from the motoring age

Steamboat Reindeer - Hudson River Sidewheeler - Vintage Maritime Print Florida_Keys_Map 1865 — a memorial lithographSteamboat Reindeer Hudson River Sidewheeler Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph of the Reindeer churning the Hudson under a banner of coal smoke, her walking beam rocking above the deck like the heartbeat of antebellum America. The print catches that brief, swaggering decade when sidewheelers ruled the river and a captain's reputation lived or died by the speed of his paddleboxes. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from