Newspaper article accompanying print in The Sun, Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Eve, January 13th, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence, over 100 Persons Perished

William Keesey Hewitt American
 Lithographer Nathaniel Currier American
 Publisher The New York Sun American

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A fire blazes through The Lexington steamship as survivors hold on to floating pieces of ship debris. A map of Long Island Sound appears below the image. This version was printed at the Sun Office and has "The Extra Sun" printed at the top of the sheet. Seven newspaper columns have been trimmed from the lower portion of the original sheet. The seven columns of newspaper coverage accompany the print 63.550.345(1).

Newspaper article accompanying print in The Sun, Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Eve, January 13th, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence, over 100 Persons Perished, William Keesey Hewitt (American, 1817–1893), Hand-colored lithograph

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