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Title
Wreck of Steamship Union on the coast of lower California, July 5th, 1851
Creator
Moody, Edwin (active ca. 1850-ca. 1861), artist Bufford, J. H., lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued
[not before 1851]
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
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Description
Three-masted steamship floundering off coast as crew in rowboats and lifelines take survivors on shore.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn by Edwin Moody; (LR): Lith. by J.H. Bufford, 260 Washington St[reet], Boston.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 35.4 x 51.6 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4k4009vx
BANC PIC 1963.002:0330--C
Subject
Events
Vessels

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