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Title	Wreck of the side-wheel steamer City of New London.
Creator	Webster, E. Z.
Place	Norwich (Conn.) Montville (Conn.)
Topic	Paddle steamers Steamboats Boats and boating Shipwrecks
Topic-Organization, Vessel	City of New London (Steamboat)
Theme	Infrastructure
Description	Port view of wreck of the burned sidewheel steamer City of New London. Handwritten on mat in ink lower left: "Webster. Photo" and lower right "Norwich Conn". "Webster Photo" and lower right "Norwich Conn".
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Dated November 24, 1871. Said to have been photographed by Capt. Crocker who rowed across the river the following morning from his house on the river. Fire occurred November 23, 1871. Seventeen people died. She was on her way from Norwich and fog-bound off Montville. It was believed that a cook laid a red hot poker on woodwork. The fire started in the galley and spread to cotton bales on board. City of New London was built in Greenport, New York, 1863. She was part of the coordinated rail-steamer transportation system that provided passenger and freight service from New York to New England cities. City of New London and her sister vessel, City of Norwich, primarily carried freight for the Norwich and New York Transportation Company. Mounted.
Date created	1871.
Physical format	1 photograph : albumen print ; 10 7/8 x 16 in.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number: 1941.3 File name: IMG0094-3235.PCD
Source	Mystic Seaport.
Rights	Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image are available from Mystic Seaport.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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