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 (1909)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958, Kent, Henry Watson, 1866-1948, Levy, Florence N. (Florence Nightingale), 1870-1947 · New York · leaf 80

An illustration from 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, 1909, leaf 80 — monpeople are comparatively simple in form. A typical andexceptionally fine chest such as the Pilgrims might havebrought with them is shown in No. 68, and slightly differingfrom this example are equally typical ones, Nos. 67 and 69.Indeed, all of the ornaments here seen, the upright leaf… … NUMBER 59 INTRODUCTION was, of course, the table. Solid tables with legs ( stand-ing, joined and dormant they were called) werefirst coming into fashion in England when the Pil-grims sailed, having developed, in the natural course ofthings, from the earlier forms of table-board, a long,narrow board…

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