Souvenir program and guide, Hudson-Fulton Celebration ... : September 25 to October 9, 1909
A 1909 souvenir program and guide issued by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission and printed by the Souvenir Program Co. of New York, commemorating the 1909 festival honouring explorer Henry Hudson and steamboat inventor Robert Fulton. The two pictures are sepia-toned prints: a bust-length portrait of Hudson in a lace ruff with a hatched, engraved finish, and a side view of Fulton's Clermont, a paddle-wheel steamboat with sails and a smoking funnel. A designer might take the sepia palette, the oval vignette framing and the simple ship silhouette as a model for historical commemorative graphics.
