C.A.FARWELL Clipper Ship Historical Repro Poster

"EXTREME CLIPPER SHIP. COLEMAN'S CALIFORNIA LINE for SAN FRANCISCO, THE A 1 SUPERB CLIPPER SHIP C.A.FARWELL" These vintage natuical advertisements created between 1850 and 1860, were originally distributed in playing card sizes. They were issued by dispatch lines to advertise specific voyages of clipper ships from one port to another. Mostly New York or Boston to San Francisco. Ad reads, "W.M.GIRARD COMMANDER" "Now rapidly Loading at Pier 14 E.R. This beautiful Clipper Ship is of small capacity-SHARP, and a VERY FAST SAILER, equal in every way, to the FINEST CLIPPERS in the trade. Shippers will please examine this vessel, and send their goods alongside without delay. She will have prompt dispatch For balance of Freight, apply to WM. T. COLEMAN & CO., 161 PEARL STREET, near Wall. Agents in San Francisco, Messrs. WM. T. COLEMAN & CO." Image is that of a Clipper ship at sea. "A clipper was technically a sailing ship with three masts on which sat a large expanse of square sails. It was designed to carry a small, highly profitable cargo over long distances at high speeds. The clipper's masts, which could reach as high as a twenty story building, carried more sails and more kinds of sails than any other ship that had been built by that time. This cloud of sails controlled by a complicated web of rigging rose above a sharp bow and a sleek narrow hull. The long lines of the ship combined with the enormous driving power of the sails allowed the ships to "clip" along at speeds that earlier generations of sailors never dreamed of, and later generations never matched." Source: History of Clipper Ships http://library.thinkquest.org/6169/hist.htm Presented by timelessprintsonline.com