Hudson Landing From the "Half Moon"

Front:
11 FlUDSON landing from the HALF MOON.

Back:
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No 164. "HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION" ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING ANO QUEEN. TRARE MARK BY APPOINTMENT CARTE POSTALE. HUDSON LANDING FROM THE "HALF-MOON". Henry Hudson, an English navigator in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, while searching for a short passage to China and India, sailed by chance into what is now New York Bay; he started up the river that to-day bears his name, on Sept. 2d, 1609, in his ship, the "Half-Moon". This voyage ended about where Albany now stands, and on Oct. 4th, he set sail on his return journey to Amsterdam. Hudson was eleven days navigating up the river, a distance that is now traversed in as many hours. 5,00 POSTKARTE. 34 Raphael House