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 Information as listed on original picture: Published by: Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St. New York Title: The Great Mississippi Steamboat Race: From New Orleans to St.Louis, July 1870 Other race information: Between the R.E. Lee, Capt. John W. Cannon and Natchez Capt. Leathers. Won by the R.E. Lee, Time: 3 Days 18 Hours and 30 Minutes; Distance 1210 Miles. The boats left the Wharf at New Orleans June 30th 1870 at 4.55 P.M. The Lee reached the Wharf Boat at St. Louis July 4th at 11.25 A.M. The Natchez reached the Wharf Boat at St. Louis, July 4th at 5.58 P.M., six hours & thirty-three minutes behind the Lee, having been detained six hrs. by a fog at Devils Id. |
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