File:"Terrific Fire Among the Steamers in the Harbor of St. Louis, MO.".jpg
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Description"Terrific Fire Among the Steamers in the Harbor of St. Louis, MO.".jpg |
English: Colored wood engraving of a crowded wharf with several steamboats enveloped in flames. Image is on the bottom half of the front page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper for Saturday, July 26, 1856. No. 33 vol. II, p. 97.
Story related to the image on the back of print (p. 98) reads: "Between five and six o'clock on Wednesday morning the 2d of July, a fire broke out in the cabin of the steamboat St. Clair, lying at the extreme end of the upper landing, which immediately communicated to the Paul Anderson, lying below her, and before many moments both were enveloped in flames. The hawsers were immediately cut loose, and the burning boats were sent floating down the stream. The current drove them alongside the Grand Turk, Southerner and Saranak No. 2, lying immediately below, and the flames instantly communicated with those steamers, and in a moment those boats were also enveloped in a terrific blaze of fire. The J.M. Stockwell, lying below the Saranak, also caught fire, and in less than three quarters of an hour, and before the engines could possibly arrive, the above six steamboats were totally destroyed. The Southerner was a splendid new steamer, and only came out at the beginning of this season. She was built in Mobile, entirely of maple wood, and valued at $35,000. She was undergoing extensive repairs, and about to have a magnificent passenger cabin placed on her for the trade between this port and New Orleans. She was not insured in any of the offices here, as far as we could learn. The Paul Anderson was an old boat and was not worth as she stood more than $1,000. Her machinery had been taken out, which rendered her all but valueless excepting the wood work and the hull, which was not considered of much account. The J. M. Stockwell was a Wabash river boat, worth about $800. The St. Clair was also an old boat, and not considered worth more than $10,000. The total amount of property destroyed would probably amount to $75,000. With the exception of the Southerner, none of the other boats were worth much. There were immense crowds of persons collected on both sides of the river, witnessing the fire, which presented at one time a fearfully grand and picturesque sight. It was supposed to have originated though the work of an incendiary." Title: "Terrific Fire Among the Steamers in the Harbor of St. Louis, MO." |
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Missouri History Museum URL: http://images.mohistory.org/image/F7D2CE09-F62A-8DD7-F19B-E4253FE2A180/original.jpg Gallery: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/154156 |
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Identifier InfoField | N42572 |
Part of InfoField | Unmounted prints from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. |
Subjects InfoField | print Engraving vertical Color outdoors riverfront Steamboats Wharves Fires burning Frank Leslie's spectators smoke Steamer St. Clair Steamer Southerner Steamer Grand Turk Steamer Saranak No. 2 Steamer J.M. Stockwell Steamer Paul Anderson Waterfronts Transportation |
Resource InfoField | 154156 |
GUID InfoField | F7D2CE09-F62A-8DD7-F19B-E4253FE2A180 |
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Credit/Provider | Missouri History Museum |
Source | Missouri History Museum |
JPEG file comment | "Terrific Fire Among the Steamers in the Harbor of St. Louis, MO." Wood engraving by unknown, 1856. Missouri History Museum Photograph and Prints Collections. St. Louis Lithographs and Engravings. n42572. |
Horizontal resolution | 600 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 600 dpi |
Image width | 6,716 px |
Image height | 9,699 px |
Color space | sRGB |
Serial number of camera | 3021200572 |
Lens used | EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM |
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Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows |
Date and time of digitizing | 09:56, 19 April 2011 |
File change date and time | 10:25, 12 January 2012 |
Date metadata was last modified | 10:25, 12 January 2012 |
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Contact information | photo@mohistory.org
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