Burning of the clipper ship "Golden Light"

not before 1853

Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material

BANC PIC 1963.002:0332--B

Image

25.4 x 35.5 cm.

print on paper: lithograph, hand colored

The Bancroft Library

Notes/Inscriptions:Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier; (LC, below title): The "Golden Light" sailed from Boston for San Francisco, February 12th, 1853... On the 22nd, during a thunder storm she was struck by lightening and set on fire
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. & pub. by N. Currier; (LC, below title): The "Golden Light" sailed from Boston for San Francisco, February 12th, 1853... On the 22nd, during a thunder storm she was struck by lightning and set on fire

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