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The Hudson-Fulton Celebration

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The Hudson-Fulton Celebration

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New for 2009 and just in time for the Quadricentennial year of Henry Hudson's historic voyage. Step back in time to witness "the biggest party" New York had ever seen.

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Hardcover, 203 pages, by author Kathleen Eagen Johnson-subtitled "New York's River Festival of 1909 and the Making of a Metropolis." This book revisits the grand celebrations of the tercentennial of Hudson's voyage on the Half-Moon coinciding with the centennial of Fulton's Clermont steamboat voyage. This book is brimming with full-color images of the two week gala.