Fire Aboard Lexington Steamboat, 1840
Fire on the steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday evening, January 13th, 1840, in which 100 people died. The casing around the ship's smokestack caught fire due to overheating from mechanical error, igniting nearly 150 bales of cotton The disaster was depicted three days after the event in this lithograph by Currier and Ives; it was their first major-selling print
Picture No
50658637
Media ID
50658637
Size
3600px x 2526px
(3.2MB)
Credit
© Science Source / Mary Evans Picture Library
Usage Restrictions
No Model Release
Source
Library of Congress
Date
1840
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