Title:
Wreck of the steamship Central America, appalling disaster [off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina]
Creator/Contributor:
Childs, J. (active after 1857), lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
[not before 1857]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0331--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
34.2 x 43.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Shipwreck in rough seas; crew and passengers clinging to sinking ship and adrift in churning water. American flag flies from
submerged mast. The ship was bound to New York from California with the Pacific mails and foundered in a hurricane on Saturday,
September 12th, 1857.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. & pub. by J. Childs 152, late 84 S[ou]th 3rd St[reet], Phila[delphia]; (LC, below
title): On Saturday, September 12th, 1857, Capt. Herndon, bound to New York from California with the Pacific mails...founderd
in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras [North Carolina].
Subjects:
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Lithographs, color;
Marines (Visual works)