The Hudson-Fulton celebration. Catalogue of an exhibition held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; commemorative of the tercentenary of the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson in the year 1609, and the centenary of the first use of steam in the navigation of said river by Robert Fulton in the year 1807
Exhibition catalogue issued by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1909 for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, marking three centuries since Hudson's voyage and a century of steam navigation, compiled by Valentiner, Kent and Levy for museum visitors and collectors of American and Dutch art. Halftone plates show colonial furniture and silver photographed in groups against plain backgrounds: side chairs with pierced splats, cabriole legs and ball-and-claw feet, turned Windsor frames, tankards, teapots and rows of spoons, each numbered and usable as silhouette stock or period ornament reference.
