DescriptionPrinted photo illustration: 1829 handbill captioned "One of Colonel John Steven's Efforts to Promote Hoboken by Broadcast." Copy reads: Oration at Hoboken. By Request. E. Thomson, (Late of Philadelphia,) Will deliver an Oration Tomorrow (Sunday) Evening at 6 o'clock, in the Grove, on the bank of the Hudson River, about half a mile above Mr. Van Antwerp's Hotel: Subject. American Independence. Ferriage of grown persons reduced from 25 to 12-1/2 cents both ways - Children half price. No Bank Bills will be received. No Boats will be permitted to land any where on the Hoboken or Weehawken shores. July 19, 1829. As found on page 18 in library catalogue 2005.017.0002, John Stevens: An American Record. By Archibald Douglas Turnbull. NY: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1928.