Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Awful explosion of the "Peace-Maker" on board the U.S. steam frigate, Princeton, on Wednesday, 28th Feb. 1844.
Call Number
E South 10/GC019/Box 01/Normal GA 2024.00322
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcvd66wd628
Publisher
New York : [s.n.], 1844.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1844
Format
Visual material
Extent
1 item ; sheet 25.3 x 35.3 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Color lithographs
Inscribed: 'By which melancholly accident the Secy. of State, Mr. Upshur, the Secy. of the Navy Mr. Gilmer, Com. Kennon, Mr. Gardner of N.Y. & Company wounded. // Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1844, by N. Currier in the Clercks office of the District Court of the South.'
Campus holdings: Another copy in the Princeton Iconography miscellaneous frame.
Depiction: Explosion of a cannon, the "Peace-Maker" aboard the U.S. Steam Frigate "Princeton", 28 Feb. 1844.

Discovery Information

Subject
Explosions—United States—History—19th century—In art
Warships—United States—History—19th century—In art
Frigates—United States—History—19th century—In art
United States—History, Naval—19th century—In art
Steamboat disasters—United States—History—19th century—In art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ad823c04-976d-482b-9f06-8624ec5836ee/manifest