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Image ID #28657
Image ID: 28657
Subjects: Steamboats; Rivers; Steamboat racing
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Description: Currier & Ives print entitled "The Champions Of The Mississippi - Race For The Buckhorns." Shows the "Queen of the West" and the "Morning Star" racing. Another boat is just behind them. Spectators cheer from the bank with a large bonfire nearby.
Date: 1866
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Collection: Robert J. Gasper Collection
Historical Note: Race was for "the buckhorns," which the victor was entitled to mount and carry between her stacks for a year.
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Format: Copy print
Accession No.: 2004-036
File Location: II-M-6, Box 1, Item 69