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File Name	Q45058
Digital image order form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf
Permission to publish form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/private2.pdf
Item Title	"American Stage Coach."
Description	Plate 40 from FORTY ETCHINGS: FROM SKETCHES MADE WITH THE CAMERA LUCIDA, IN NORTH AMERICA IN 1827 AND 1828 by Captain Basil Hall. From the author's description: "The American Mail Stage in which we journeyed over so many wild as well as civilized regions, deserves a place at our hands. And if the sight of this Sketch does not recal [sic] to persons who have travelled in America the idea of aching bones, they must be more or less than mortal! The springs, it will be observed, are of hide, like those of the French Diligence - and every thing about it is made of the strongest materials. There is only one door, by which the nine passengers enter the vehicle, three for each seat, the center sufferers placing themselves on a movable bench, with a broad leather band to support their backs. Instead of panels, these Stages are fitted with leather curtains. The baggage is piled behind, or is thrust into the boot in front. They carry no outside passengers - and indeed it would try the nerves as well as the dexterity of the most expert harlequin that ever preserved his balance, not to be speedily pitched to the ground from the top of an American coach, on almost any road that I had the good fortune to travel over in that country."
Date	1827-1828
Email ADAH	Do you have information or questions about this image? Click here to email us: mailto:photos.archives@archives.alabama.gov and please include file name (located below image) or the hyperlink of the image.
Time Period	1820-1829
Subject	Carriages & coaches Transportation
Type	Still image
Format	Prints Sketches
Author	Hall, Basil
Collection or Series Title	Forty etchings: from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828
Box Number	E165.H16 1830
Catalog Record	http://adahcat.archives.alabama.gov:81/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=23118
Repository	Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Language	English
Rights	This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.
Original Size	9.2 by 5.7 inches
Digital Format	600 dpi tiff
Uploaded batch	2011_07_scans_images
Date created	2012-01-24

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