1874 Wood Engraving JR Brown Art SS Bessemer Saloon Steamship Swing Cabin YTGA1 NAF1 Virginia Bruce

Virginia Bruce

Staten Island

This lithograph is from a Charles Dickens rare print collection

"Horn from Lapp Altar

This 88+ year old Item is rated Near Mint / Very Fine+

1874 Wood Engraving JR Brown Art SS Bessemer Saloon Steamship Swing Cabin YTGA1 NAF1 Virginia Bruce"The New Bessemer Saloon Steamer Transverse Section, Taken Through the Saloon" This is an original 1874 black and white in text wood engraving of an illustration by J. R. Brown that depicts a transverse cross section of the swinging cabin of the experimental cross Channel passenger paddle steamer known as the SS Bessemer or the "Bessemer Saloon" that was designed by English engineer, Sir Henry Bessemer (1813 1898) to combat the symptoms of sea