Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," [graphic] : On the River Delaware, opposite Philadelphia, on the night of Saturday, March 15th, 1856, between 8 and 9 o'clock, by which dreadful calamity sixty-one lives were lost. Names of all on board.

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Contributor	Printer Pharazyn, Alfred, publisher.
Title	Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," [graphic] : On the River Delaware, opposite Philadelphia, on the night of Saturday, March 15th, 1856, between 8 and 9 o'clock, by which dreadful calamity sixty-one lives were lost. Names of all on board.
Publisher	[Philadelphia]: Published by A. Pharazin 103, South Street]
Date	[[1856]
Extent	1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 26 x 36 cm. (10.25 x 14 in.)
Description	Dramatic view of the steamboat engulfed in flames and smoke, the captain still at the helm as the passengers, including African Americans, escape for their lives into the icy river. Panicked passengers jump into the water already teeming with disaster victims who thrash, swim, and attempt to stay upon and assist others onto cakes of ice, debris, and a single rowboat. Rescuers from the nearby wharf, including firemen, work frantically and desperately throw a rope to a woman standing afloat a cake of ice. Contains the names of the 107 white and "colored" dead, missing, and saved passengers in three columns below the image. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as the result of defective boilers. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river.
Notes	Copyrighted by A. Pharazin.
	Date of publication supplied by Wainwright.
Genre	Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860.
Subject	Corson, Ebenezer.
	Steamboat accidents--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
	Disaster victims--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
	Fires--Pensylvania--Philadelphia.
	African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage	Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Is part of	Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by	Wainwright 478.
Has format	TMP.objres.4578.jpg
Related resource	http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W478.htm
Call number	Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W478 [P.2252]
Accession number	P.2252

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