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Detail View: Rylands Collection:

Image Number: 
JRL18090032
Reference Number: 
VOB.5.25
Series Title: 
E.L. Burney Collection
Parent Work Title: 
Isabella Banks Splinters from The Princess Alice
Date Created: 
c1800s
Description: 
Small slivers of wood tied together with wire. Attached is a handwritten label stating Splinters from The Princess Alice sunk in the Thames from a collision. [Initials illegible]. On 3rd of September 1878, SS Princess Alice, formerly PS Bute, was sunk in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle off Tripcok Point. Over 650 lives were lost.
Subject: 
Collectors and collecting
Subject: 
Ships
Category of Material: 
Visual
Sub-Category: 
Objects
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Wood
Support: 
Paper
Time Period Covered: 
19th Century CE
People Covered: 
Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus) Mrs., 1821-1897
Item Height: 
127 mm
Item Width: 
13 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2018-09-05
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2018-11
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Rylands