1850-09-11-New York Tribune-Seven-Mile Panorama
Seven-Mile Panorama
New York Tribune, 11 September 1850, p. 1
from its junction with the Ohio the head waters, and returning to St. Louis, a distance of more than
3,000 miles, on 7 miles of Canvass!!At Stoppani's Panorama Hall, 398 Broadway, cor. Walker.
Commences with a grand View of the Mouth of the Ohio River, City of Cairo, and Ohio City. Giving the grand prominent points at one view, of three different States: Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky, with steamboats passing up and down the River, and other scenery, including Commerce, Cape Girardeau, Herculaneum, Montesano House, &c.
Distant view of St. Louis, and Full View of St. Louis as it was previous to the Great Fire of 1849. Mouth of the Missouri River, and City of Alton, with Cap au Gris in the distance, concluding with a beautiful Dissolving View of the Town of Hannibal.
Mouth of Des Moines River, Fort Madison, and Mouth of Ohio River, Bloomington.
Storm Scene, with Rock Island at Sunset: view of Rapids; Twilight View of Dubuque, and Dubuque's Grave, followed by grand Mountainous Scenery.
Time, early dawn—A View of Coline du mal, and Five Point Bluffs, on East bank of Mississippi; King and Queen Mountains; View of Wabashaw Prairie, covered with Indians; Eagle Rocks, &c.; Wenoona's Rocks in the distance, and the beautiful Lake Pepin.
Wenoon's Leap, or Maiden's Rock, with Indian Wedding Party; Little Crow Village; Town of St. Paul's, Mouth of St. Croix River; St. Peter's, and Mouth of St. Peter's River.
Fort Snelling, with groups of Winnebago Indians, and beautiful Prairie lands, and View of a Grand Council of Indians and the Chief haranguing the dusky mass. An Indian Funeral, and splendid View of the Falls of St. Anthony, and the Prairie Plains of the Northwest for more than 500 miles, ending with a Dissolving View of a Prairie on Fire.
Grand Buffalo Hunt by Indians; Battle of Bad Axe; View of Galena; The Mormon Temple; City of Alton; Upper Ferry by sunset, and Grand Dissolving View of the City of St. Louis on Fire, which happened on 17th May, 1849, and destroyed 23 steamboats, and 400 houses.
Doors to open at 7; Curtain to rise at 7½. Price of admission 25 cents. Children half price.
Books, descriptive of the above Scenery, with Indian Legends and Anecdotes can be had at the Hall. Prices 12½c.
