Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name:
- Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, lithographer and publisher
Title:
Burning of the Steamship Golden Gate, July 27th 1862
Date:
[not before 1862]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
Dimensions:
28 x 36.3 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0335--B
Subject:
- Fires
- Vessels
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Engravings
- Marines (Visual works)
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Starboard view of steamship with three masts and two smokestacks engulfed in flames. Lifeboat filled with survivors in water; crew and passenger crowded at bow and stern. American flag at stern.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Published by Currier & Ives; (LC, below title): On her voyage from San Francisco to Panama, having on board two for tow passengers and a crew of 95 persons of whom only 100 are know to have been saved; (LR): Nassau Street New York.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf638nb6f x

Burning of the Steamship Golden Gate, July 27th 1862