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Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday eveg., Jany. 13th 1840, by which melancholy occurence; over 100 persons perished. Courier lithograph documenting a news event, published three days after the disaster.
Source

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03102
Date

1840
Author

drawn by W.K. Hewitt ; Nathaniel Currier. lithographer
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