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Contributor 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
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date [1856]
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 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 escape into the icy river. Panicked-looking passengers jump into the water already teeming with disaster victims, including an African American man, 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 in a frantic manner and desperately throw a rope to a white woman standing on an ice floe. Also shows a horse on the fire engulfed deck and a white woman propelled by a flame off of the rear of the boat. A sign for "Baths" is visible on the riverbank in the background. 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 a result of defective boilers, a fireplace, and brick work. 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.
Is referenced by Wainwright, 478
Notes Title from item.
Date supplied by Wainwright.
Copyrighted by A. Pharazin.
Philadelphia on Stone
Purchase 1965.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject Corson, Ebenezer.
New Jersey (Ferryboat)
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Disaster victims -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Drowning victims -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fires -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ice floes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rescue work -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Steamboat accidents -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Printer Pharazyn, Alfred, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W478 [7541.F]
Accession number 7541.F