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Title

View of the Railway Disaster at Hamilton, C.W. on Thursday Evening, March 12th 1857.

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Item (linked) part of

Canadian Historical Prints Collection [graphic material] (R13133-0-7-E)

Date(s)

ca. 1857

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher

Sold by G.E. Pell

Extent

1 print / estampe : lithograph on wove paper ; 12.7 X 18.3 CM. (SHEET), 9.9 X 17.1 CM. (IMAGE).
Support: 18.300 x 12.700 cm
Image: 17.100 x 9.900 cm

Language of material

English

Scope and content

This lithograph was copied after a daguerreotype by David N. Preston.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)

90: Open
unknown

Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-092477

Restrictions not set

Graphic (art)

90: Open

Volume
17 Item no. assigned by LAC 268

90: Open

Archival reference no.

R13133-280-6-E

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-268
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Artist: Preston, David N., 1853-1857 active,
Engraver: Gregory, Hardy, 1856-1865 active.
Publisher: Pell, George E., fl. 1861.

Additional information

Removed from: Publication: Published as the frontispiece to the booklet "Full details of the Railway Disaster of the 12th of March, 1857 at the Desjardins Canal, on the line of the Great Western Railway", published by William A. Shepard & Co., Hamilton, and printed at the "Franklin Lightning Press" by John W. Harris & Co.

After a daguereotype by David N. Preston (act. 1853-1857)

Reproduction note

Copy negative number C-092477.

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscribed. Signed.
Inscription: in the stone, below image l.l.: Drawn & Lith. by H. Gregory, Hamilton, C.W.; l.r.: from a Dageureotype by D.N. Preston.; l.c.: VIEW OF THE RAILWAY DISASTER AT HAMILTON, C.W./ ON THURSDAY EVN MARCH 12TH 1857./ SOLD BY G.E. PELL/ PRINTSELLER, LOOKING GLASS & PICTURE FRAME MANUFACTURER.

Subject heading

1. Ontario.
2. event.
3. événement.
4. GEOG - ONT., HAMILTON - ENVIRONS, DESJARDINS CANAL.
5. SUBJ - DISASTERS & ACCIDENTS - TRAIN WRECKS - 1857.
6. SUBJ - RAILWAYS - GRAND TRUNK.

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

2937208