Hudson-Fulton Celebration 1909 Historical Pageant New York

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Hudson-Fulton Celebration
September 25 to October 9,
1909
Historical Pageant
This booklet is unique remembrance of the great New York historical pageant  to commemorate primarily the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson,
an  English navigator sailing under Dutch auspices, in 1609, and the first  successful application of steam to navigation upon that river by Robert Fulton  in 1807
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ut,  the real importance of those events lies in the remarkable history of which  they were the precursors.
This celebration included remarkable Art,  Scientific and Historical exhibitions, by special studies and by learned  societies and educational institutions,
by lectures, orations, essays,  publications, pictures and superb pageantry on land and water.
What a beautiful window into the past as  seen through the eyes of an event depicting an even more distant past.
All these pages are scanned   into .pdf files for viewing and/or printing from Windows or Macintosh systems.