Launching of world's largest clipper

Numerous spectators watch as the largest clipper ship, the Great Republic, is launched in Boston Harbor in October 1853.

Publication date: 1937-11-07

Size: 13.6 x 20.5 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Geography:

• Boston (Mass.)

Temporal: 1853

Subject(s):

• Clipper ships--Massachusetts--Boston--1850-1860
• Great Republic (Clipper ship)
• Launchings--Massachusetts--Boston--1850-1860

Genre(s):

• Illustrations

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (November 7, 1937), p. 12

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Contributor(s):

• Pix Publishing, Inc.