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[Humane Society of Philadelphia]

[Specimen sheet of volunteer fire fighting vignettes]

Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," [graphic] : On the Delaware River, 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. Nam

Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey"

Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey,"