Royal Mail Steam Ship, Africa.

Object summary

Title: Royal Mail Steam Ship, Africa.
Object ID: CC-R-0198
Date made: 1851
Place made: United States, New York, New York
Printer and publisher: Currier, Nathaniel
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A starboard-broadside view of the paddle steamship 'Africa.' As a Royal Mail packet, she made regular voyages from Liverpool to Halifax to Boston as part of the Cunard line. She flies a British Red Ensign on her stern and an American flag on her foremast. The same image, but uncolored is printed on the verso.

Inscriptions

Type: stamp
Location: recto, bottom left
Text: Clark Collection MIT

Type: graphite
Location: recto, bottom right
Text: 9-29

Type: graphite
Location: recto, bottom right
Text: R198

Type: graphite
Location: verso, bottom right
Text: R198

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