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Title: Explosion of the American Eagle/Explosion of the Steamer Stockton [California]
Creator: Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1853
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: Upper image: explosion and fire of sidewheel steamship as seen at night; lower image: explosion and fire of paddleboat steamer.
Printed title (upper image): Explosion of the American Eagle/on the San Joaquin River, 25 Miles below Stockton Oct[ober] 8/1853; (lower image): Explosion of the Steamer Stockton/on Suisson Bay, Oct[ober] 18, 1853. Printed (LC): Lith. & pub. by Britton and Rey, cor[ner] Montg[omery] & Commercial, S[an] Francisco.
Type: image
Format: Print on tinted paper: lithograph 27 x 19 cm., sheet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0m3nb3bb
BANC PIC 1963.002:0034--A
Subject: California, Northern
Fires
Vessels

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