Steamer "Clermont"

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $9.95
Original Price: $16.95

Stock #:490384
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
Dock Landing of the Clermont. The Clermont, the first boat propelled by steam, required 32 hours to go to Albany from New York City-about 150 miles. The fare was $7, and freight was carried at the rate of three cents a pound. Plying the same route on the Hudson today are palatial steamboats, more than three times the size, carrying 2000 passengers and making the trip easily in ten hours.

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