Great Lakes Art Database

Steamboat Mississippi

Description
Creator
Stanton, S. W., Attributed name
Item Type
Drawings
Description
Drawing of the paddle steamboat MISSISSIPPI
Notes
Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899.
Inscriptions
"Steamboat Mississippi. Built at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1853. A floating palace; length 335 feet; tonnage 1,829; one beam engine, 82-inch cylinder, 12-feet stroke; three boilers, each 50 feet long by 11 feet diamete; dismantled in 1863, hull remodeled into a dry dock."
Publisher
J. H. Beers & Co.
Place of Publication
Chicago
Date of Original
1899
Date Of Event
1853
Subject(s)
Steamboats
Mississippi (steamboat)
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Lake Erie
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 42.454166 Longitude: -81.121388
Copyright Statement
Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
Contact
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
Email:walter@maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca
Website:
https://www.MaritimeHistoryOfTheGreatLakes.ca/

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Steamboat Mississippi


Drawing of the paddle steamboat MISSISSIPPI