“Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat ‘Lexington’ in Long Island Sound on Monday Eveg Jany 13th 1840, by Which Melancholy Occurrence Over 100 Persons Perished,” by N. Currier, Lithographer, was published in The Extra Sun. Metropolitan Museum of Art/CC0
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