Keywords: Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington.jpg Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday eveg Jany 13th 1840 by which melancholy occurence; over 100 persons perished Courier lithograph documenting a news event published three days after the disaster Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cph 3g03102 1840 drawn by W K Hewitt ; Nathaniel Currier lithographer PD LOC-image cph 3g03102 PD-old Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington |