By Which Melancholy Occurrence: The Disaster Prints of Nathaniel Currier, 1835–1840
The hapless steamboat Lexington left New York for its usual run up to Stonington, Connecticut, at three o'clock in the afternoon on January 13, 1840, carrying passengers and a cargo of cotton bales. The day was particularly cold and the seas beyond Throgs Neck particularly high; almost all the...
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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2014-11-01
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https://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/by-which-melancholy-occurrence-the-disaster-prints-of-nathaniel-currier-1835-1840/
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