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Wreck of the steamship Central America, appalling disaster [off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina]

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Title: Wreck of the steamship Central America, appalling disaster [off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina]
Creator: Childs, J. (active after 1857), lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1857]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Shipwreck in rough seas; crew and passengers clinging to sinking ship and adrift in churning water. American flag flies from submerged mast. The ship was bound to New York from California with the Pacific mails and foundered in a hurricane on Saturday, September 12th, 1857.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. & pub. by J. Childs 152, late 84 S[ou]th 3rd St[reet], Phila[delphia]; (LC, below title): On Saturday, September 12th, 1857, Capt. Herndon, bound to New York from California with the Pacific mails...founderd in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras [North Carolina].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 34.2 x 43.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0d5nb3j4
BANC PIC 1963.002:0331--B
Subject: Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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