Steamboat Lexington Destroyed...
Item # 206434
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THE MADISONIAN, Washington, Jan. 18, 1840 Pg. 3 report: "Appalling Calamity" "Steambot [sic] Lexington Destroyed By Fire, And Nearly Two Hundred Lives Lost!", plus "Further Particulars". Says the boat left New York and that the fire occurred near Eltons Neck. Traces of foxing.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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$19
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.
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