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Wreck of the packet ship "Staffordshire" on the night of Dec[ember] 29th, 1853, off Seal Island

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Title: Wreck of the packet ship "Staffordshire" on the night of Dec[ember] 29th, 1853, off Seal Island
Creator: Drew, C., artist Bufford, J. H., lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 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: Ship floundering in high seas as survivors set off in rowboats.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LR): Painted by C. Drew from a sketch by an eyewitness; (LR): J.H. Bufford's Lith., Boston.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 38.9 x 52.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4c6009jz
BANC PIC 1963.002:0336--C
Subject: Events
Vessels

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