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Broadside within decorative border with map, vignettes, and text, most with contemporary hand color. Image area 73.5x53 cm (29x20¾"); overall sheet size 78x58 cm (30¾x22¾"). Probably woodcut engravings. 

A busy production expressive of Yankee aspirations at the end of the war. In “An American Exhibiting to the Sovereigns of Europe the Progress of His Country,” a dandified gentleman in top hat faces an audience of richly dressed European aristocracy and royalty. He gestures with pride to a busy scene behind him with a giant steamer named The Union, other ships, a train, a factory (all belching noxious, black fumes), a hot air balloon, and a city tapering away to majestic mountains. On either side of the map are columns of statistical data respecting individual states. All is surrounded by a border of intertwined stars with U.S. shields at the four corners. The Great Oregon Railroad is shown in color.