<i>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</i>.  Courier lithograph documenting a news event, published three days after the disaster.
drawn by W.K. Hewitt ; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Currier" class="extiw" title="en:Nathaniel Currier">Nathaniel Currier</a>. lithographer
1840
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