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Title
Burning of the Steamship "Golden Gate," July 27, 1862
Creator
Currier & Ives, publisher
Contributor
Kemble, John Haskell, 1912-1990, donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
From JHK provenance card file: At right and left directly below engraved surface: "Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. New York." Starboard view, on fire, underway. Colored litho. Engraved surface 8" x 12 1/4" […] Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0834. Focus of item: Golden Gate.
The Golden Gate, launched 21 January 1851, operated for Pacific Mail on the San Francisco to Panama route from 1851 to 1862; she burned on 27 July 1862 off the Mexican Coast, north of Manzanillo, with a loss of 223 lives and her cargo of treasure.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
Print ; image 20.3 x 31.3 cm (8 x 12 5/16 in.) ; overall 25 x 34.7 cm (9 13/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Identifier
priJHK 00819
333799
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/22048
Subject
Golden Gate (Steamship : 1851-1862)
Golden Gate (Steamship : 1851-1862)--Fire, 1862
Paddle steamers--United States--19th century--Pictorial works
Passenger ships--United States--Pictorial works
Steamboats--United States--19th century--Pictorial works
Marine prints--United States--19th century
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Ships--Fires and fire prevention
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
Illustrations
Source
John Haskell Kemble Collection
Prints
Vessels
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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