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Title: Burning of the California clipper "Hornet," one thousand miles from land
Creator: Weir, Mr., artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [1866]
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: Scene of fire and shipwreck with survivors packed into rowboat, watching as ship burns in distance.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC): Sketched by Mr. Weir.- [see page 614].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving, hand colored 27.6 x 38.1 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4489p2s7
BANC PIC 1963.002:0961--B
Subject: Fires
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