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A painting showing DeWitt Clinton pouring waters from Lake Erie into New York Harbour
Copyright 1905, C.Y. Turner
“The Marriage of the Waters”

A mural decoration in the DeWitt Clinton High School, New York City, showing a scene connected with the ceremony of opening the Erie Canal in 1825.
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