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    Inscribed, lower right corner: S A Whipple | Detroit 3,1880

    Oil on board portrait of the CITY OF CLEVELAND on a calm lake at night. A three masted schooner is off the bow in the background.

    Monochrome grey wash, touches of gouache, over pencil. Laid down on cardboard mount

    The city of Buffalo, N.Y. 1880. Population, 155,159. Actual Enumeration Census of 1880. Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1880 by E. H. Hutchinson, in the Office of the Librarian of Co

   

    Lithograph on wove paper

    Monochrome grey wash & gouache

    Monochrome grey wash & gouache on light grey paper

    Water colour and pencil on wove paper. Laid down on dark grey cardboard mount (trimmed)

    This oil painting is of the JOHN WESLEY sailed by Capt. J. Hutton. The ship was owned by Parker Bros. The painting is signed "S.A. Whipple, 1880" in the viewer's lower left corner. The three masted s

    Renamed CITY OF ALPENA in 1885

    Main Salon

    Ladies Salon

    FLORA was sold to Canadian interests in 1899 and operated as URANIA, before being returned to the US flag in 1905 and renamed FLORA again.

    Woodcut engraving of the Detroit River ferry EXCELSIOR with a crowd of passengers on board.