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Boat landing, Mississippi River, Clinton, Iowa

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People gathered to board a steamer for a cruise. The Clinton Bridge is in the background. In the first quarter of a century after Clinton county was entered for settlement, it had to depend upon the river and the freight wagon, with an occasional stage coach, or horse mail-carrier, for all that it received from the outside world. 1908 postmark. Number 2553.
Title Boat landing, Mississippi River, Clinton, Iowa
Index Date 1908
Type of Resource still image
Genre postcard
Physical Extent 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium Hand-tinted real photo reprint, divided back.
citation/reference Wolfe's History of Clinton, Iowa: Volume I by Patrick B. Wolfe, 1911: B.F. Bowen, p. 104
Date Issued 1908?
Note Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Note Purchase or donation
Language English
Topic Clinton County (Iowa)
Topic Clinton (Iowa)
Topic Boats
Topic Steamboats
Topic Bicycles & tricycles
Topic Vehicles
Cartographic 41.829490, -90.186974
Classification MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_clinto0001
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_clinto0001
Identifier (local) grinnell:14436
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Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/14436
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