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In 1848 Lewis visited Dubuque on his trip from Fort Snelling near present day St. Paul, Minnesota, to St. Louis, Missouri. He remarked that the city was certain to become the metropolis of the [[LEAD MINING]] region and one of the Upper Mississippi River's most important cities. | In 1848 Lewis visited Dubuque on his trip from Fort Snelling near present day St. Paul, Minnesota, to St. Louis, Missouri. He remarked that the city was certain to become the metropolis of the [[LEAD MINING]] region and one of the Upper Mississippi River's most important cities. | ||
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LEWIS, Henry. (England, 1819-Dusseldorf, Germany, 1904). Landscape painter and illustrator. The illustrations and descriptions of the MISSISSIPPI RIVER Valley made by Lewis are considered the most complete record of the subject made in the nineteenth century. His Mississippi Panorama of consecutive river scenes covered a roll of canvas, 1,300 feet long with a height of 12 feet, stretched between two cylinders on opposite wings of the theater stage. For fifty cents a person, the audience had the illusion of traveling the Mississippi-either up or downstream depending on the direction the canvas was unwound.
In 1848 Lewis visited Dubuque on his trip from Fort Snelling near present day St. Paul, Minnesota, to St. Louis, Missouri. He remarked that the city was certain to become the metropolis of the LEAD MINING region and one of the Upper Mississippi River's most important cities.