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Title
Pacific Mail Steamship Company's Steamships City of Peking and City of Tokio
Creator
Homer Lee & Co., publisher
Contributor
Kemble, John Haskell, 1912-1990, donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
Photomechanical copy of etching without lettering, see priMISC/M KM0071a. The City of Tokio is in the far left distance; print also shows the Yacht Magic and the Pilot Boat 18 in the right near distance. Magic won the America's Cup in 1870. The City of Peking is off of Sandy Hook, which can be seen in the right distance. "Eldredge Collection Mariners' Museum"--stamp in brown ink, verso, lower right corner. Focus of item: City of Peking.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
Print ; image 40 x 66.7 cm (15 3/4 x 26 1/4 in.) ; overall 59.1 x 79 cm (23 1/4 x 31 1/8 in.)
Identifier
priJHK 00271
306322
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/12398
Subject
City of Peking (Steamship : 1874-1910)
Ships--19th century--Pictorial works
Steamboats--Pictorial works
Passenger ships--United States--Pictorial works
Steamboat lines--United States--19th century
Marine prints--19th century
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Pilots and pilotage--New Jersey--Sandy Hook--Pictorial works
Harbors--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century
Magic (Yacht)
Illustrations
Source
John Haskell Kemble Collection
Prints
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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