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Collection Summary
Collection: D - D Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0005-00001
Title: Men on the steamboat Far West on the bank of a river
Date: Circa1911
Inscription/Marks: [front]: "Up the swinging, bluff-bound reaches / Where the lonely bittern boomed / Throbbed a dull, insistent whisper, growing strongly, / As the steamboat, flame-winged herald / To an age forespent and doomed / Waked the woodlands with its pistons pulsing song. 'THE MISSOURI'" [back] "A valentine and belated New Year's greeting, combined, to our friend Captain Waul(?). From Frances (?) Hanson and Joseph Will Hanson. Feb. 14 1911. Boat Lgth. 190ft. Wdth. 33" depth 4 1/2" Engine 15 in. in dia. 5 ft. strok. 3 boilers
Summary: Steamboat on the river with two men standing and two sitting. (Photo itself is a part of a calender of 2011).
Red ID: PH_I_89182 Image ID: 43196 Image Notes: D0005-00001-back

Collection: D Digitized Images from Collection
Title: D Collection
Date: circa 1874-circa 1960

Summary: At some point in time the State Historical Society separated photographs into collections by size. The A collection consists of items 4 X 5” or less, the B collection consists of items 5 X 7” or less, the C collection consists of items 8 X 10” or less, the D collection consists of items 11 X 14” or less, and the E collection consists of items larger than 11 X 14”.

Collection Summary
Collection: D - D Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0005-00001
Title: Men on the steamboat Far West on the bank of a river
Date: Circa1911
Inscription/Marks: [front]: "Up the swinging, bluff-bound reaches / Where the lonely bittern boomed / Throbbed a dull, insistent whisper, growing strongly, / As the steamboat, flame-winged herald / To an age forespent and doomed / Waked the woodlands with its pistons pulsing song. 'THE MISSOURI'" [back] "A valentine and belated New Year's greeting, combined, to our friend Captain Waul(?). From Frances (?) Hanson and Joseph Will Hanson. Feb. 14 1911. Boat Lgth. 190ft. Wdth. 33" depth 4 1/2" Engine 15 in. in dia. 5 ft. strok. 3 boilers
Summary: Steamboat on the river with two men standing and two sitting. (Photo itself is a part of a calender of 2011).
Red ID: PH_I_89182 Image ID: 43195 Image Notes: D0005-00001

Collection: D Digitized Images from Collection
Title: D Collection
Date: circa 1874-circa 1960

Summary: At some point in time the State Historical Society separated photographs into collections by size. The A collection consists of items 4 X 5” or less, the B collection consists of items 5 X 7” or less, the C collection consists of items 8 X 10” or less, the D collection consists of items 11 X 14” or less, and the E collection consists of items larger than 11 X 14”.

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