Image of an advertisement for the packet ship New Jersey; image of the ship with full sails at center. Date supplied by cataloger based on Boston Journal article recounting an 1849 voyage of the New Jersey under the Suffolk and California Mutual Trading and Mining Association. "Propeller Power Presses, 142 Washington Street, Boston."--text, bottom right margin. "Now offer the Splendid, Copper Fastened and Coppered, New York built Packet Ship New Jersey, Capt. Kimball Harlowe, Master, 635 tons burthen, to sail from Boston, March 1st. The above Ship, having spacious airy between decks, seven feet high, running the whole length of the ship, will afford as much comfort to one hundred and fifty passengers ... S. H. Gardner, President."--text, bottom center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 wood engraving : uncolored ; overall 49.85 x 33.97 cm (19 5/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
Advertising--Transportation Flags--Pictorial works Suffolk and California Mutual Trading and Mining Association Relief prints--1825-1850. (gmgpc) Broadsides. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Maritime Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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