Steamer "Peter Stuyvesant" of the Hudson River Day Line
Description
A photograph of the Steamer "Peter Stuyvesant." The name of the boat is written on the side and in smaller letters on the front left side. There are six American flags and one unknown flag flying on the ship. There is smoke coming from the smoke stack positioned roughly in the center of the ship. The ship is photographed at an angle, with the front of the ship closer on the left side and more distant on the right side. The ship takes up approximately four-fifths of the width of the photograph and two-thirds the length. The ship is white, and and there are white railings on the bottom three decks. There are four decks on the ship, and a ladder is visible leading from the bottom deck to the one immediately above it. The ship is travelling along the river with nondescript trees in the background. Blank space around edges of card.
Postal data: unmarked, unposted; (PLACE POSTAGE STAMP HERE) printed inside decorative stamp box; Postcard type: divided back (THIS SIDE FOR CORRESPONDENCE.; THE ADDRESS TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.); Logo (POST CARD.) in stylized lettering; printed over graphic division line with laurel leaves at the outer ends of two horizontal line segments that meet an additional vertical line in the center of the back, forming a curvy "Y" shape with a diamond in the center. The vertical line has a graphic at its bottom end point. A graphic consisting of a square with a circle inside of it breaks each horizontal line segment into two pieces. The lines have a green stroke but no fill, and four stroke-only rounded corner squares are underneath each set of leaves; No message; No addressee.
Digitized by Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College (CUNY). Front Image Digitization Team: GSLIS 790, Digital Imaging Spring 2008: Greg Murphy; Rev. by C. Perry, 5/08. Back Image Digitization Team: GSLIS GSLIS 790, Digital Imaging, Spring 2008: Kathleen O'Neill
Extent
3.5 in. x 5.5 in.
Publishing Note
[unknown]
Related Resource
Waterways Post Card Collection of Thomas T. Surprenant: Hudson River