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Title: Burning of the clipper ship "Golden Light"
Creator: Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
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: Port-side view of three-masted ship, with American flying from central mast, engulfed in flames. Lifeboats and barrels on water.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier; (LC, below title): The "Golden Light" sailed from Boston for San Francisco, February 12th, 1853... On the 22nd, during a thunder storm she was struck by lightening and set on fire
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 25.4 x 35.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8f59p5hr
BANC PIC 1963.002:0332--B
Subject: Fires
Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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