Jun 11, 2009 - Sale 2183

Sale 2183 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(WEST VIRGINIA.) Two manuscript maps on polished cloth, both picturing a segment of the Ohio River and detailing a collision between two river boats, 370x915 mm and 460x1210 mm; few scattered minor defects; each annotated with information regarding the collision; Signed by local officials. Wheeling, April 1854

Additional Details

Probably created to serve as legal documents in litigation following the collision of the steamers "Thomas Swan" and "Fanny Fern." At the time of the collision the area pictured was part of the border between Ohio and Virginia. The Virginia portion became West Virginia during the Civil War.