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The Boat Trip: Etchings by Charles Francois Daubigny In 1857, French landscape painter Charles Francois Daubigny purchased a 27-foot ferryboat and converted it into a floating studio.
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Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
So what’s a guy like Welsh doing musing about his mortality on a creaky ferryboat?
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2012
That new platform, Ashley said, would be located where the Berkeley, an 1898 steam ferryboat, is currently docked.
—Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
The guides included a woman who jumped into the river to escape the rolling dust cloud after the collapse of One World Trade Center, and a ferryboat captain who sailed back and forth, carrying New Yorkers to safety on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
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Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
So what’s a guy like Welsh doing musing about his mortality on a creaky ferryboat?
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2012
That new platform, Ashley said, would be located where the Berkeley, an 1898 steam ferryboat, is currently docked.
—Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
The guides included a woman who jumped into the river to escape the rolling dust cloud after the collapse of One World Trade Center, and a ferryboat captain who sailed back and forth, carrying New Yorkers to safety on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
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“Ferryboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferryboat. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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