First Class New York Packet Ship, England

Object summary

Title: First Class New York Packet Ship, England
Object ID: CC-E-0007
Date made: 1837
Place made: United Kingdom, Greater London, London
Lithographer: Day & Haghe
Publisher: Walters, Samuel
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

Captn B.L. Waite, inward-bound off Point Lynas - making signal for a Pilot.

uncolored lithography of the port view of the New York Packet Ship England. Packet ships were vessels that carried mail, cargo, and people. Hundreds of people immigrated to America by packet ships in the 1800s.

The England was added to the Black Ball Line after it passed into the hands of Captain Charles H. Marshall in 1836.

Inscriptions

Type: stamp
Location: recto
Text: Clark Collection MIT

Type: graphite
Location: recto
Text: 1837

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