Title:
Burning of the Steamship Golden Gate, July 27th 1862
Creator/Contributor:
Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
[not before 1862]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0335--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
28 x 36.3 cm.
Content/Description:
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.
Notes/Inscriptions:
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.
Subjects:
Fires;
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Engravings;
Marines (Visual works)