Lower Manhattan 1609 as Hudson First Saw It.

Lower Manhattan To-Day

The Clermont on Her First Trip August 17, 1807.

Lower Manhattan To-day.

The Clermont on Her First Trip August 17, 1807.

Henry Hudson

The Hudson River from the Battle Monument at West Point.

Hudson Memorial Monument, Hudson Memorial Bridge

Henry Hudson.

Steamboat "Robert Fulton" Hudson River 1909

The "Clermont" Sailing up the Hudson River, 1809.

The Half Moon. A Replica of the Ship in which Henry Hudson first entered the Hudson River.

Robert Fulton -- 1765-1815 "The Liberty of the Seas will be the Happiness of the Earth."

Robert Fulton's First Experiment on the Conestoga.

Hudson Memorial Monument. Hudson Memorial Bridge.

John Fitch's Steamboat at Philadelphia.

Jonathan Hulls' Steamboat (1737).

Fulton at Clermont Manor. Arrival at the Home of Chancellor Livingston, Aug. 18, 1807 on the first trip from New York.

Robert Fulton - 1765-1815. "The Liberty of the Seas will be the happinesss of the earth."

Lake Tear of the Clouds - Source of the Hudson River.