Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Burning of the clipper ship "Golden Light"
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
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Creator Role:
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lithographer and publisher
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Title:
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Burning of the clipper ship "Golden Light"
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Date:
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[not before 1853]
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Materials:
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print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
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Dimensions:
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25.4 x 35.5 cm.
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Current Location:
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Bancroft Library.
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Address:
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Berkeley, California 94720-6000
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Object ID:
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BANC PIC 1963.002:0332--B
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Subject:
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- Fires
- Vessels
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Lithographs, color
- Marines (Visual works)
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Heading:
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Content/Description:
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Notes:
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Port-side view of three-masted ship, with American flying from central mast, engulfed in flames. Lifeboats and barrels on water.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
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Notes:
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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
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf8f59p5hr
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