$75.00 CAD
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Hudson River Day Line (NY) flyer that folds out, with one full side having a gorgeous color image of the Hendrick Hudson, the ‘magnificent New Steel Steamer…licence 5,000 passengers’. Other side gives timetables for 1907 season.
‘On Decoration Day, May 30th, the “Hendrick Hudson” will make a Grand Special Excursion from New York to Poughkeepsie and Return’
On the other side, the four panels are:
Also a postcard with image of the Hendrick Hudson, published by The Hudson River Day Line.
Tears along fold of flyer, some light smudging outside of image and reverse. UR corner crease on postcard.
Flyer Folded: 3 ⅞” x 9” (one panel)
Flyer Open: 7 ¾” x 17 ⅞” (4 panels)
The Hendrick Hudson was put into service in 1906 at a cost of almost a million dollars. She had an advertised length of over 400 feet and was licensed to carry 5,500 passengers.
Art was commissioned for interior decoration. Murals depicting Henry Hudson's Halve Maene, Washington Irving's home, the senate house at Kingston, and the capitol at Albany were part of the interior displays.
Of the many Hudson River steamboat lines, the one which became the best known in this country and abroad was the Hudson River Day Line. Its “white flyers” were famous for their elegance and speed, and provided the most enjoyable way to travel the Hudson River. No one could claim to have seen America without seeing the Hudson River, and the only way to properly see the Hudson River was from the deck of a Day Liner. Important foreign guests were taken for steamboat rides soon after their arrival in New York.
The company stressed “passengers only” and so it achieved a cachet of elegance the freight carriers could not boast. It reached its zenith of operations in the 1920s, at which time it had the largest and finest fleet of steamers to be found on any river. The hard times of the 1930s began the decline of the line as a through carrier to Albany, despite a flurry of activity during World War II.
On September 13, 1948, the Day Line steamboat Robert Fulton made its last run from Albany to New York City, bringing to an end the era of gracious steamboat travel on the Hudson River.
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