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Title: The Catalpa the rescuers and the rescued
Creator: Britton & Rey, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1871
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of the ship Catalpa, pictured in the midst of the rescue of the escaped Fenians off the coast of Australia with several ships in pursuit; portraits of the escaped Fenian men and their rescuers (Michael Harrington, Thomas Darragh, James McNally Wilson, John Breslin, Denis Duggan, John King, Thomas Desmond, Thomas Brennan, Captain George Smith Anthony, Thomas Hassett, Martin J. Hogan, and Robert Cranston); portraits, Irish clover and Celtic harps frame central ship image.
Date supplied by cataloger based on date of rescue; the Fenians escaped in 1876. "Britton & Rey. Photo. Lith, S.F."
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 38.42 x 51.44 cm (15 1/8 x 20 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_MAR_002605
463821
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2789
Language: English
Subject: Boats and boating--Pictorial works
Fenians
Portraits
Ships--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Maritime
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Relation: priJLC_MAR_001406

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