This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Longest Panorama Paintings by Banvard Narrative
A fragment recalls Banvard the painter who claimed the largest picture ever made a 400 day Missouri River voyage on a skiff to paint a panorama. The 1846 panorama of Missouri to New Orleans toured the US and Europe before vanishing.
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John
Missouri River
New Orleans
Missouri
United ‘States
Europe
Longfellow
Banvard
Mississippi
Louisiana
India