The Steamer "Commodore"
Collection: This image is from the Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, print, and digital image.; Image is part of the Jacob F. Wieners Photographs
Date: September or October, 1909; 1909-09-25
Material: unknown material on plate glass; gelatin silver print Dimension:
8 x 10 inches (glass plate negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Creator: Jacob F. Wieners, Jr.
Identifier: aql:11790 jfw-000301 jfw-000301.tif
Description: Men, women and children crowd the decks of the steamer, apparently chartered by the College Point contingent of the Hudson-Fulton Association, whose banner is seen but partly obscured along the rail of the vessel. The occasion was the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, which took place from September 25 to October 9, 1909 in New York and New Jersey. It was an elaborate commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River and the 100th anniversary of Robert Fulton’s successful commercial application of steam navigation.
Creator :
Jacob F. Wieners, Jr.
Date :
September or October, 1909; 1909-09-25
Summary/Description :
Men, women and children crowd the decks of the steamer, apparently chartered by the College Point contingent of the Hudson-Fulton Association, whose banner is seen but partly obscured along the rail of the vessel. The occasion was the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, which took place from September 25 to October 9, 1909 in New York and New Jersey. It was an elaborate commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River and the 100th anniversary of Robert Fulton’s successful commercial application of steam navigation.
Subject :
Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909; Steamboats
Relation :
This image is from the Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, print, and digital image.; Image is part of the Jacob F. Wieners Photographs
Rights :
Copyright holder unknown
Coverage :
College Point, NY College Point (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
glass plate negative; black and white print; digital image
Format :
unknown material on plate glass; gelatin silver print; 8 x 10 inches (glass plate negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Identifier :
aql:11790 jfw-000301 jfw-000301.tif
Subject:
Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909; Steamboats
Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909; Steamboats
Rights Notice
Copyright holder unknown
Copyright holder unknown
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