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Fragment. Lid of bandbox. Scene of the Erie Canal - the bridge at Little Falls. Small boat being pulled along the stone aqueduct by a horse. Small house and waterfall in foreground. Printed in red, pink, varnish green and white on a blue ground.
bandboxes (containers)
Bandbox
WP 372
641
Unknown
United States
20 1/4 x 16 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Franics Newton
1949.73
Cadwallader D. Colden, "Memoir Prepared for the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals" "Hatboxes and Bandboxes at the Shelburne Museum", p. 132-4
United States
Title Accession Number 1930.618
Block Printed
Bandbox
Blue
Original
Handmade
transportation, engineering, New York State
Wove
Paper
canal
aqueduct
house
fly boat
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