Hudson-Fulton Exhibiton

Prints, Robert Fulton, cont'd.

617.* Fig. 97.-Fulton monte sur son bateau à vapeur, le Clermont, à New-York, pour son premier voyage, le 11 avril 1807 (page 199). In lower right corner: E. DESCHAMPS. Left: Corbeil, Crété et Fils, imp.; right: Furne, Jouvet et Cie., édit. 4 x 5 7/16. Wood engraving. About 1865-70.

618. September 1807. The "CLERMONT," the first Steam Packet of the World sailed from New York to Albany. Left, within border: J. H. SHERWIN; left: Designed by Reigart; right: L. N. Rosenthal's Lith. Philada. 438 x 7 13/16. Lithograph, one tint.

From J. F. Reigart's "Life of Fulton," Phila., 1856, oppos. p. 171.

619.* The Clermont on the Hudson river. City in distance. On stern of vessel: CLERMONT. 2 3/16 x 2 15/16. Wood engraving. Recent. The picture makes the vessel stand too high out of the water. Her depth was seven feet.

620.* Departure of the Clermont on her First Voyage. On stern of vessel: CLERMONT. Showing Castle Garden and lower end of city. 3 1/16 x 5 6/16. Wood engraving. Modern. Same appearance of boat as in preceding. 621. ROBERT FULTON'S "CLERMONT" PASSING STORM KING AND OLD CRO'NEST IN THE HIGHLANDS OF THE HUDSON. Left: PRESENTED BY THE HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE, NEW YORK, ON THE ONE | HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE START OF THE "CLERMONT"; right: REPRODUCED BY COURTESY OF "THE RUDDER"; right, within border: WARREN SHEPPARD, Copyright, 1907. 9 1/16 x 7. Half-tone in color.

This is an illustration for "An Historical Souvenir, presented by the Hudson River Day Line, New York, on Robert Fulton Day, August 17, 1907, to commemorate the Centennial of Fulton's Clermont," the first successful steamboat in the world, which started up the Hudson at 1 p. m., August 17th, 1807." The souvenir contains four letters dated August 28, 1807; November 28, 1829; August 12, 1853; and 1907, respectively, describing the progress of steam navigation in America. The same print was issued also with The Nautical Gazette" for August 30, 1906.

622. [The "Clermont," Fulton's first steamship.] Left: BONWILL Del.; right: P. MEEDER Sc. 72 x 458. Wood engraving.

This picture of the "Clermont" is identical with the one in the woodcut on p. 211 of J. W. Barber's "Historical Collections of the State of New York," 1851, with two exceptions: the artist has here added five transverse rings to the smokestack, and a beli to the frame behind the smokestack.

623. THE "CLERMONT." 2% x 48. Vignette. Wood engraving.

The boat is steaming up stream past the Palisades; spectators on the right bank.

624. The Clermont-Fulton's first Steamboat. Right: N. ORR-CO. SC. Vig. 2 11/16 x 4 5/16. Wood engraving.

In M. L. Booth's "History of the City of New York," N. Y., 1880, p. 682.

625. PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF MACHINERY

IN FULTON'S CLERMONT, 1807. Left: Drawn by H. B. Barlow; right: C. F. Chef

fins Lithog.; centre, above title: Published 1st July, 1848. In border of two lines. 3 3/16 x 64; to border, 4 10/16 x 7%. Lithograph. steam navigation," Lou

...

In Woodcroft's "Sketch of .. don, 1848, p. 64.

See also, for small pictures of the "Clermont," nos. 564, 565.

The reproduction of the "Clermont," built for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909, was pictured in the "New Yorker Staats-Zeitung" (July 11, 1909), New York Times" (Aug. 22, 1909), and other papers.

626. THE PARAGON STEAM-BOAT. Right: A. Anderson Sc. Centre, below title: Engraved for the Med. & Phil. Register. 334 x 6 5/16. Line engraving.

See also no. 491 ("Catskill Mountains and the steam boat.... ."), which, says Seymour Dunbar, "is perhaps the earliest published picture of a steamboat on the Hudson river. Up to that time the three Hudson boats with masts built by Fulton were the Clermont (1807), Car of Neptune (1807-8), and Paragon (1811). Because of the date of publication, and the appearance of the boat, it is probable that this is intended to be a sketch of the Paragon. Several details of the boat as shown, however-including the exposed paddle wheel-point to the possibility that the vessel may be the Clermont as she appeared in her early trips in 1807. Only the discovery of the date of Glennie's original drawing can settle the point." Of the later state of this plate Mr. Dunbar says:

"The original boat is replaced by an entirely different vessel with cabins, and with paddle wheels enclosed and protected by heavy timbers. The steamboat here shown is the Firefly (1812) or the Richmond (1813), with the probabilities in favor of the last named. (See statistics on broadside, no. 604 in this list.)

627. THE PARAGON STEAMBOAT. | Copied from an Original Drawing by Robert Fulton, in the possession of J. Allen. Left: Copied by J. Hayward, 120 Water Str. N. Y.; right: for D. T. Valentine's Manual 1852. 3% x 68. Lithograph, one tint.

Same design as preceding type.

628. LAUNCH OF THE STEAM FRIGATE FULTON THE FIRST, AT NEW YORK 29TH. OCTR. 1814. | 150 feet long and 57 feet wide, will mount 30 long 32 pounders, and 2 (Columbiards). 100 pounders Left: Copied from a Sketch by Morgan taken on the spot; right: Lith. by G. Hayward 120 Water St. N. Y. for D. T. Valentine's Manual 1852. 6 11/16 x 142. Lithograph, blue tint.

Prints, Robert Fulton, cont'd.

were: Length 156 feet, depth 10% feet, breadth 34 feet, displacement 526 tons.

Pictures of the vessels built by Fulton have been, of course, frequently published. Thus, in Samuel Ward Stanton's American steam vessels," N. Y.. 1895, there appear re-drawn in pen and ink, the "Clermont," "Para

gon." Hope," "Demologos." Among numerous pictures of later vessels given in this book are those of the "Philadelphia" (Delaware River, 1813), "Chancellor Livingston " (1816, 1828), "Walk-on-the Water" (1818). 631. STEAM PACKET

"CHANCELLOR

LIVINGSTON"-1817 | Built from plans drawn by Fulton for a corporation that held a monopoly of the waters of New York state for the use of steam propelled vessels-Photographed from a rare old print. 5 13/16 x 5 1/16. Half-tone.

See also nos. 214-216.

JACKSON FERRY.

See no. 208.

Early American and other Steam Boats prior to Fulton.

650. Statue de Denis Papin. In lower left corner: A. CALMEUS, 1849. Left: J. GAGNEIT. 5 7/16 x 1%. Wood engraving. About 1865?

From a French periodical.

Preble, in his Chronological History of the Origin and Development of Steam Navigation, Phila., 1885, says that Papin built and navigated a boat on the river Fulda, Germany, in 1707.

651. DENIS PAPIN. STATUE BY AIME MILLET RECENTLY INAUGURATED AT BLOIS, FRANCE. Arched top. 834 x 44. From the N. Y. "Graphic," Sep. or Oct. 187-? 652.* MR. JONATHAN HULLS. | THE INVENTOR OF THE | STEAM BOAT. Centre, above title: Engraved by W. T. Fry from an original painting. Border of two lines. 234 x 2%; to border, 2 14/16 x 24. Line engraving. India paper.

Hulls, an Englishman, took out a patent for his boat in 1736.

653. [Engraving of a British sailing frigate in tow of Jonathan Hulls' machine.] Centre: Published according to Act of Parliament 1737; right: Jon. Hulls invt. et Delint. 64 x 138.

In Jonathan Hulls' "Description and draught of a newinvented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of, or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind or tide, or in a calm," London, 1737. Frontispiece.

654. Jonathan Hulls' Steamboat; used as a means of Towing other Vessels out of Harbor. Patrick Miller's double Boat; 1787. Left: Des. by Reigart; right: Lith. by Rosenthal. 42 x 64. Lithograph in one tint.

From J. F. Reigart's "Life of Robert Fulton," Phila., 1856, oppos. p. 154.

655. Experience du Marquis de Jouffroy faite sur la Saone à Lyon, le 15 juillet 1783. In lower left corner: U. PARENT. In lower right corner: E. DESCHAMPS. On line with title, left: Fig. 86; right: (page 166.)* 48 x 52. Wood engraving.

According to Preble, in his "Chronological History of Steam Navigation," Jouffroy was the fourth man to actually build and operate a boat which moved by its own steam power. The first, according to Preble (pp. 5-7) was Papin, the Frenchman, on the River Fulda, in Germany, in 1707; the second, Comte de Auxiron, in 1774; the third, Perrier, on the Seine in 1775; the fourth, Jouffroy, also French, on the Seine at Paris in 1783.

656. Fig. 85. Mecanisme Moteur du bateau à roues du Marquis de Jouffroy (coupe et elevation). 2 10/16 x 3 7/16. Wood engraving. About 1865-70.

657. John Fitch's Model of Sept., 1785, with endless chain and floats and paddle-boards, in possession of the American Philosophical Society. 13/16 x 34. Wood engraving.

From "The Life of John Fitch," by Westcott, p. 131. Showing also a section of chain and paddle.

The model of Fitch's first boat, a sinall skiff, propelled by paddle-boards attached to an endless chain. It was tried on the Delaware river, at Philadelphia, about July 20, 1786. Fitch thought of the vertical oar plan, fitted the skiff with the oars, and "the first boat successfully propelled by steam in America was moved in the Delaware on the 27th of July, 1786.' (Preble's " Chronological History," pp. 14-15.)

658.* Plan of Mr. Fitch's Steam Boat on the upper part of an octavo sheet, the lower part of which shows a map of the North Atlantic Ocean. The whole enclosed in a border of two lines. Above, at right: Columb. Mag. Centre, below: Annual Passage of the Herrings. Size of the steamboat picture, 1 12/16 x4 1/16. With border, 2 7/16 x 4 3/16. Line engraving.

Probably

From "Columbian Magazine," Dec., 1786. the earliest published picture of a boat successfully propelled by steam in America. Fitch ran this boat (his second) under her own power on the Delaware River, at Philadelphia, on August 22, 1787.

659. STEAM BOAT | FIG. 1. | Steam Boat invented by John Fitch. Right: Engraved by J. Yeager.

On" Plate DX, No. II," from the New Edinburgh Encyclopædia," American edition. 660.* Plan of Mr. Fitch's Steam Boat. Centre, above: FROM THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE, 1786. At the top of a folio sheet, the lower part of which contains a facsimile of Fitch's letter of Dec. 25, 1790, in which he says, "I have given my Country a most Valuable Discovery..." 134 x 48. Lithograph. About 1845.

6602. ORIGIN OF STEAM NAVIGATION. "HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE." A VIEW OF COLLECT POND AND ITS VICINITY, in the City of New York in 1793, on which Pond the first boat propelled by paddle wheels and screw-propellers, constructed by John Fitch, six years before Robert Fulton made trial of his boat upon the River Seine, in France, and ten years prior to his putting into operation his boat "Clermont" in New York; with a representation of the boat and its machinery on the Collect pond. | BY JOHN HUTCHINGS . . . 1846. DRAWN & LITH. BY J. PENNIMAN, 80 1/2 CANAL ST. N. Y.; centre, above title: Entered... 1846; right: F. MICHELIN'S LITH., III NASSAU ST. Border of six lines. 152 x 232; to border line, 15 13/16 x 23 13/16. Lithograph, colored.

Left:

Map of Collect Pond in centre; to left, an account of Fitch and testimonials to the character of Hutchings, etc.; to right, account of meeting of Fulton, Livingston and Fitch; in upper corners and centre below, four pictures of Fitch's boats.

661. "HONOR ΤΟ WHOM HONOR IS DUE" ORIGIN OF STEAM NAVIGATION... Large folio broadside, with Fitch's screw propeller of 1796 in upper left corner, his 12-0ared boat of 1786-7 in the upper right corner, his model boat of 1797-8 at bottom, and a map of Collect Pond and Vicinity in centre. Bottom: THE WORLD IS INDEBT

Prints, Robert Fulton, cont'd.

ED FOR THE ORIGINAL IDEA AND TO THE MECHANICAL GENIUS OF JOHN FITCH, OF EAST WINDSOR, CONN. | and to the perseverance and indefatigable attention to the use of steam of Robert Fulton Esq. Pa.... Below: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1846 by John Hutchings... N. Y. Size, to border, 14 x 18 1/16. Lithograph.

The rest of the broadside is occupied by a long printed description of Fitch's steam propeller of 1796.

Based on the preceding; title at top instead of bottom and only three boats shown.

The 12-oared boat is here called John Fitch's First Boat Perseverance; it is his second boat and is not the "Perseverance." This picture of this boat is reproduced from the Columbian Magazine print of 1786.

662.

Same. EM. 13292 to 13294.

FITCH'S STEAMBOAT. In a border of three lines, two of which are below title. 2 5/16 x 4; with border, 3 5/16 x 5. Wood engraving. About 1845-50.

One of the first prints to supply the smoke stack, overlooked by many early artists because the original Columbian Magazine picture omitted it.

663.* THE SECOND EXPERIMENTAL BOAT OF JOHN FITCH. | Finished in May, 1787, and run at the rate of four miles per hour on the Delaware. Cylinder | twelve inches in diameter, stroke three feet. Lower left corner: J. W. ORR N. Y. Vign. I 11/16 x 3 13/16. Wood engraving.

With smoke stack.

From "Eighty Years' Progress of the United States," vol. 2, N. Y., 1861, p. 226.

664. FITCH'S STEAMBOAT. Vign. 28 x 4. Wood engraving. About 1850?

665.* THE FIRST EXPERIMENTAL BOAT OF JOHN FITCH. 2 3/16 x 4 10/16. Wood engraving. About 1855-60.

The printed inscription is an error. Really his second boat. Has the smoke stack.

666. FITCH'S STEAMBOAT. | On the Delaware River, opposite Philadelphia. Left: Designed by Reigart; right: L. N. Rosenthal's lith. Philada. 43% x 734. Lithograph in one tint.

From J. F. Reigart's "Life of Robert Fulton," Phila., 1856, oppos. p. 152.

667.* Fig. 92.-Le premier bateau à vapeur américain. Experience faite en 1789 par John Fitch, près de Philadelphie, | sur la Delaware. Lower left corner: U. PARENT; lower right corner: E. DESCHAMPS. Below, left: Corbeil, Crété et Fils, imp.; right: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, édit. 52 x 48. Wood engraving. 668. John Fitch's Second Experimental Boat, 1787; Oliver Evans' Orukter Amphibolis.; Fitch's First Passenger Steamboat, 1789; Fulton's First Successful Steamboat; John Fitch's First Propeller; Machinery of Fulton's Steamboat. The whole in a border of one line. Size, to border, 7% x 11 5/16.

From J. L. Ringwalt's "Development of Transportation Systems in the U. S.," Phila., 1888.

669.* Cylinder, Condenser, and Air-pump of Fitch's Steam-boat. | [From the original drawing in the Philadelphia Library.] 3/4 x 1 15/16.

Wood engraving. From Westcott's Life of Fitch, 1857.

One of Fitch's early ideas for part of a steam-boat engine. 670.* THE FIRST PASSENGER STEAMBOAT. (The second experimental boat of John Fitch, finished in May, 1787, rate four miles per hour on the Delaware. This is believed to be the first boat navigated by steam. In 1789, Fitch completed the first steamboat, rate 8 miles per hour.) 234 x 4 10/16. Wood engraving. About 1860.

Fitch's third boat finished in 1788. Brissot de Warville describes the boat and its working under date of Sept. 1, 1788, in his "Journey," (Paris, 1791.) During the summer of 1790 the boat made about 31 trips. The New York Magazine for 1790 (p. 493) said, "Fitch's steamboat really performs to a charm."

671.* THE FIRST STEAMBOAT EVER BUILT TO CARRY PASSENGERS. | Constructed by John Fitch, and finished April 16, 1798. Cylinder eighteen inches in diameter, | speed eight miles per hour in smooth water. The following year this boat was run to Burlington regularly as a passenger boat. Vign. 18 x 34. Wood engraving.

The dates on the print are incorrect. See note after preceding item. Eighty years' progress of the United States," vol. 2, N. Y., 1861., p. 226.

From "

672. Three diagrams showing the style of boiler and furnace designed by Fitch and Voight and used by Fitch in his passenger boat of 1788-1790. Titles: Section of Pipe Boiler; Section of Pipe Boiler; In its Furnace. Small wood engravings, from Westcott's Life of Fitch, 1857.

673.* THE FIRST PROPELLER EVER BUILT.

Constructed by John Fitch, and experimented with by him on the Collect pond, New York City. The boiler was a twelve gallon pot, with a bit of truck-plank fastened by an iron bar placed transversely. This was in the year 1796. Vign. 2 3/16 x 3 10/16. Wood engraving.

From "Eighty years' progress of the U. S.," vol. 2.N. Y., 1861, p. 235.

Fitch's fifth boat. His fourth was the "Perseverance.", 674. "First Steamboat": title in pencil at centre. Right: LOSSING BARRITT. Vignette. 134 x 45%. Wood engraving.

675. Fitch's Model Steamboat, Bardstown, Kentucky, 1797-8. 1 7/16 x 2. Wood engraving. From Westcott's "Life of Fitch," 1857, p. 368. Fitch's sixth and last boat. It was simply a working model, about three feet long, run by paddle wheels. Fitch used it just before he died, in a creek near Bardstown. 676. Fitch's last Model | for a River Steam Engine in the Possession of the Merchantile Library of St. Louis. In the centre of a small folio sheet, with Pl. XLII in the upper right corner, containing also the facsimile of a letter written by Fitch Feb. 21, 1784. 6 10/16 x 5 9/16. Lithograph. About 1840-45. EM. 13295. 677.* THE GRAVE OF JOHN FITCH, BARDSTOWN, KY. In lower right corner: BAXTER-HARLEY. Vign. 3% x 45%. Wood

engraving.

From "Life of Fitch," by Westcott, Phila., 1857.

Prints, Robert Fulton, cont'd.

678. JAMES RUMSEY'S STEAM BOATS, 6TH NOV. 1788; JOHN FITCH'S STEAM BOAT, DEC. 1787 See Rittenhouse's Certificate, page 1075; ROBT. FULTON'S STEAM BOAT, THE NORTH RIVER or CLEREMONT, 1807 | From a Sketch by Joseph Dyer Pubd. in Woodcroft's origin and progress of Steam Navigation. Right: Engraved Printed by Gavit & Duthie. Line engrav

ing.

Frontispiece to the reprint of Rumsey's pamphlet of 1788, as contained in O'Callaghan's The Documentary History of the State of New York," Albany, 1849; vol. 2, p. 1009.

679.* Jas. Rumsey's Steam-boat-English patent. 1 3/16 x 3 7/16. Wood engraving.

From Westcott's "Life of Fitch." 1857. Rumsey, a Virginian, abandoned the American field to Fitch after their pamphlet controversy in 1788, went to England and got a patent there in that year. He died just as a boat was nearing completion. It was finished by his partner in 1793. 680. Rumseys Steam-boat-English patent. 1 1/16 x 3 3/16. Wood engraving.

From Westcott's "Life of Fitch," 1857. Rumsey's plan for propelling a boat by forcing a jet of water from the stern had been previously proposed to the Pennsylvania Assembly, in 1776, by Arthur Donaldson. Benjamin Franklin also suggested it (see Sparks "Life," vol. 6, p. 463).

681. James Rumsey's Steam-boat,

Virginia,

1788. 18 x 2 9/16. Wood engraving. From Westcott's Life of Fitch, 1857.

682. Patrick Miller's Triple Vessel, 1787. (From Woodcroft's Steam navigation.) Side elevaBorder tion above and deck plan below. of one line. To border, 4 x 62. Half-tone. This boat in the experiments of 1787 was propelled by two paddle wheels, each of which was turned by two men. The trial was made in the Frith of Forth, in the spring of 1787. James Taylor proposed to Miller (or Millar) the application of steam to the wheels.

683. Double Pleasure Boat, Miller, Taylor and Symington, 1788. (From Woodcroft's Steam Navigation.) 2 1/16 x 4 1/16.

Half-tone.

The outcome of Taylor's suggestion to Miller. It was operated on the Lake of Dalswinton, in October, 1788. 684. Fig. 89.-Experience de Miller, Taylor et Symington faite, en 1789, sur la pièce d'eau de la terre de Dalswinton (page 171). Lower left corner: U. PARENT; lower right corner: E. DESCHAMPS. Left: Corbeil, Crété Fils. imp.; right: Furne, Jouvet et Cie., édit. 4 1/16 x 52. Wood engraving. About 1865-70. Second steamboat of the three British inventors. On Dec. 26, 1789, the boat was operated on the Great Canal, in Scotland.

685.* Fig. 90.-Mecanisme moteur du bateau à vapeur de Miller, Taylor et Symington. 3 13/16 x 4 13/16. Wood engraving. About 1865-70.

The engine used in the boat of 1789. Designed by Symington.

686.* The Charlotte Dundas, Wm. Symington, 1803. (From Woodcroft's Steam Navigation.) Above, a broadside view of the boat under way; beneath, a longitudinal section of hull and machinery. Size of upper view: 2 x 4 1/16; of lower view: 24 x 4 13/16. Half-tone.

On the Forth and Clyde Canal, in March, 1802, this sternwheel boat of Symington's towed two other boats, a distance of 19 miles, in 6 hours, against a head wind. Without a tow she ran at 6 miles an hour.

687. An original drawing, colored, of the deck plan of a paddle-wheel steamboat, on a sheet of paper watermarked "Whatman 1801."

7 x 144. Size of sheet, 14 10/16 x 214. The first of a series of three drawings, evidently by the same inventor. The forward third of the boat is almost an equilateral triangle. The paddle-wheels are protected front and beneath, and attached to an axle. The inventor has written, to the right and beneath his drawing, profuse pencil notes and arguments in favor of his discovery and contrivance."

One of the earliest known drawings of a steamboat. The boat was intended to navigate on Chesapeake Bay and the Susquehanna river, and to be used as an aid in opening the Genessee country, in New York state, to settlement. About 1801-1805.

688.* An original drawing, colored, of the deck plan of a paddle wheel steamboat. The revised plan of the inventor whose work is shown in the preceding drawing. Done on a sheet of paper watermarked "Whatman 1801." With profuse explanatory manuscript notes, originally written in' pencil, and traced over in ink. The bow of the vessel is now curved. A furled awning is shown toward the stern. 6% x 1534. Size of sheet, 14 10/16 x 212. Above the drawing the inventor has written the words, "The Genessee steam packet."

689.* An original drawing, colored, of a paddlewheel steamboat, showing a side view of the vessel. The third plan of the unknown inventor whose work is shown in the two preceding drawings. Centre, in pencil: "This being the first steam packet we will call her the lad of the lakes or Washington or the Genessee and Baltimore packet. The vessel has one smoke stack, and a mast surmounted by a large lantern. The machinery is covered. Above and below the drawing are legible explanatory notes, written in pencil and overtraced in ink. Size of drawing: 4 x 20. Size of sheet, 15 x 21 9/16.

690.* SCREW PROPELLER, BEING THE FIRST FERRY-BOAT | RUN FROM HOBOKEN TO NEW YORK-BUILT BY JOHN STEVENS, v804. 12 x 2 6/16. Wood engraving. About 1871. 691. TWO-SCREW

PROPELLER,

BEING

THE SECOND FERRY-BOAT | RUN FROM HOBOKEN TO NEW YORK-BUILT BY JOHN STEVENS, 1805. I 9/16 x 234. Wood engraving. About 1871.

692. OLIVER EVANS. Bust; directed and facing right, looking front; hands on cane. About 1840. Vign. 32 x 234. Wood engraving. a. As described.

b. With border of two lines. Size to border, 6 10/16 x 44.

693.*

* OLIVER EVANS. THE WATT OF AMERICA. Centre, above title: Engd. by W. G. Jackman; centre, below: New York. D. Appleton & Co. Border of two lines, 6 x 44; to border, 6% x 4 6/16. Line engraving.

694.* THE FIRST AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE, Or, Evan's "Eructor Amphibolis." Border of three lines, two of which are below title. 2% x 3 11/16; to border, 3 5/16 x 5. Wood engraving. About 1850.

The Eruktor was properly a boat used for dredging, its

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