MAUD and DESER[ONTO?], steamboats, racing, undated photograph

black-and-white photograph

5 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. photograph undated. Image is a view of a canoe racing with steamboat DESER[ONTO] of Napa[nee] and Canadian steamboat, MAUD, in background, with crowds of spectators on shore and others in the foreground watching from canoes. MAUD was a Canadian sidewheel steamboat. Object condition: four corners torn and missing. Object from album 97.133.720 from the collection of materials related to the American Canoe Association. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, General Collection.

Mystic Seaport, General Collection