DescriptionThe Hudson-Fulton Celebration 1909. The Fourth Annual Report of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission to the Legislature of the State of New York. Transmitted to the Legislature, May twentieth, nineteen ten. Prepared by Edward Hagaman Hall. Printed for the State of New York by J.B. Lyon, State Printers, at Albany, 1910. Two volumes. Large 8vo decorated cloth. Volume I: pages 1-714; Volume II: pages 715-1421. Numerous photographs and plates, all of which are in the pagination except for frontispieces. A very detailed record of the events that took place to commemmorate the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson's landing in 1609 in New York and the discovery of the river that was to be named after him. It included the commemoration of Robert Fulton's first successful steamboat on the Hudson in 1807 (thus the celebration was not for the centennial of that event.) Numerous photographs, drawings and plates, all of which are in the pagination except for frontispieces. large 8vo cloth