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The First Steamboat on the Missouri River Arriving at New Franklin in 1819, (painting). Artist:  Higgins, Victor, 1884-1949, painter. Title:  The First Steamboat on the Missouri River Arriving at New Franklin in 1819, (painting). Other Titles:  First Steamboat on the Missouri - The Independence Arriving at Kanblin, May 28, 1819, (painting). Dates:  1925. Dimensions:  72 x 144 ft. Description:  This lunette, one of twenty-two along the second floor corridor, depicts a steamboat traveling into port at "New Franklin," Missouri on May 28, 1819. Figures on the steamboat stand and wave to the townspeople who have gathered on the dock to watch the arrival. Down by the waterfront, a cannon is fired in celebration. Subject:  History -- United States -- Missouri Landscape -- Missouri -- New Franklin Landscape -- River -- Missouri River Figure group Architecture -- Boat -- Riverboat Object Type:  Mural Lunette Painting Owner:  Missouri State Capitol, 2nd floor corridor, Jefferson City, Missouri 65101 References:  Porter, Dean A., "Victor Higgins: an American master," Salt Lake City : Peregrine Smith Books (Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame), 1991, no. 119. Missouri Capitol Commission Board, "The Missouri State Capitol," 1983 rev. ed. Illustration:  Porter, Dean A., "Victor Higgins: an American master," Salt Lake City : Peregrine Smith Books (Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame), 1991, pg. 119. Missouri Capitol Commission Board, "The Missouri State Capitol," 1983 rev. ed., (Pickard: Report of the Capitol Decoration Commission: pg. 108). Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 27620051   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 27620051 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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