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Image Title: The Great Pictorial Romance Of The Age, Or, Steam Ship Commodores & United States Mail Contractors, 1850

Date: 185-

Summary: American political cartoon about the awarding of United States mail contracts. Print shows steamships (two shaped like rocking horses) and a balloon labeled "California mail balloon via Nicaragua," with discussion among the characters about "Johnson's patent gas" machine and their competition.

Subjects: Balloons (Aircraft)--1850-1860
Contracts--1850-1860
Mail steamers--American--1850-1860
Postal service--United States--1850-1860

Original Media: Lithograph

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