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Disasters of 60 Days
Disasters of 60 Days
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Title: Disasters of 60 Days
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Lith. & Published by Britton & Rey
Date Published: 1853
Description:


Lithograph with four large images and two small vignettes. On single sheet of white wove paper, overal 21.5x28 cm. (8½ x11").



Four larger illustrations include: Wreck of Steamship Tenessee [sic[ Indian Cove, March 6th, 1853; Wreck &; Burning of the Steamer Independence, Island Margarita, Feby. 16th, 1853, 150 Lives Lost; Collapse of Flue on Board Henny Lind Off San Francisquito, April 11th, 1853, 50 Lives Lost; Wrech of Propellor [sic] Steamship S.S. Lewis, Duxbury Reef, April 9th, 1853. There is a small vignette at center, Explosion R.K. Page Nicolaus, Feather River March 12st 1853, and a smaller vignette a top center of California and her bear in black wreath. A sad chronicle of the tenuous nature of navigation on the seas and rivers during the California Gold Rush. Baird 53.

Condition
Some darkening, wear and chipping to margins particularly at left edge, a few neat repairs on verso; good to very good.
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