2-752-439 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'St. Paul, from Dayton's Bluff', 1874. Steamboats on the Mississippi at Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. '...Dayton's Bluff, on the east side of St. Paul, where, with one sweeping glance, the eye takes in the city, its towers, and its [grain] elevators, the railroad-bridges, the opposing rocky shores, and the graceful curve of the river'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]