Frances Flora Bond Palmer (aka Fanny Palmer) - "Wooding Up" on the Mississippi
Currier & Ives issued more than thirty lithographs of the great Mississippi River; those pictures showing steamboats ranked among the most popular. In the nineteenth century, steamboats provided important and practical large-scale transport of passengers and goods both up and down this mighty river; such riverboats navigated the shallow waters, as well as upriver against strong currents, thereby helping to develop trade between America's heartland and the Gulf Coast. Created during the American Civil War, this Mississippi River night scene features a full moon (appearing through a break in the clouds) and two paddlewheeler steamboats, both flying the American (Union) flag. On the shore in the foreground, a crew of about a dozen black men load logs, taken from a large, stacked woodpile, onto the steamboat "Princess;" their work is overseen by two white men standing near a blazing campfire. At left, another steamboat approaches - The Met
Size: 7015px × 4960px
Photo credit: © steeve-x-art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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