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Flatboat Engraving

Description:

This engraving is captioned, "Sketch of a Flat bottom Boat, such as are used to descend the Ohio and the Mississippi." In the era before railroads and automobiles, rivers, lakes, and canals were important transportation routes in the United States. They were easier and more economical to travel than were the roads of the time. Prior to the invention of steamboats, waterways were navigated in boats powered by sail, human muscle, or the current.

Collection Number:

SC 181

Image Number:

TAH0320

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