Once, the Hudson River was crammed with pleasure boats, taking city folks to picnics and parks all summer long.

1827 fusion of art and cartography, A Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls, likely struck 19th-century viewers as ... telegraph and steamboat, the United States grew into one of the world’s leading ...

Comparing 1900 to 1800, Americans were reminded that at the beginning of the 19th century there were no railroads, telegraphs, steamboats, electricity, kerosene, telephones, reapers, plumbing ...