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c. 1820 Historic American Steam Boat Chancellor Livingston Hand-Colored Print

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c. 1820 Historic American Steam Boat Chancellor Livingston Hand-Colored Print
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Post-Revolutionary War to Civil War
Steam Boat “Chancellor Livingston” Hand-Colored Print
c. 1820, Hand-Colored Print of the Historic Early American Steam Boat “Chancellor Livingston,” Choice Extremely Fine.
This early 19th Century Print depicts two cut-away views of the Steamship “Chancellor Livingston”. Measuring about 9.5” x 7.25”, this hand-colored print shows the exterior and interior of the ship. Print and paper are in excellent condition with no noticeable edge chipping or folds. Minor age toning, and the right margin appears to have been trimmed close to the image.

On August 16th, 1824 the General Marquis de La Fayette arrived from France in the ship Cadmus for his remarkable Tour of America. It was met in Staten Island and escorted by every steamship in the port of New York. On the 17th General La Fayette embarked on board the highly decorated American Steam Boat “Chancellor Livingston” upon Robert Fulton firing a salute. Also on board were many important dignitaries, American Generals, the band from West Point and the committee from the Society of Cincinnati.
On November 24, 1817, a ferry entrepreneur named Thomas Gibbons asked Cornelius Vanderbilt to captain his steamboat between New Jersey and New York. Though Vanderbilt In the early 1800s, a monopoly on steamboats in New York waters was granted by the New York legislature to the politically influential patrician, Robert Livingston, and steamboat designer Robert Fulton.

Livingston knew that mechanized vessels plying the massive rivers of the territory he had negotiated away from Napoleon, were essential if that distant territory was to be inhabited by more than just a few adventurous souls. Together with Fulton and Nicholas Roosevelt, they built the first steamboat to travel the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.