Pictorial Supplement 6

The Francis Lee Higginson Collection
of Steamships

This selection of sixty oils, water colors and drawings from the.Higginson Collection, deposited at the Peabody Museum of Salem, illustrates it's, richness and diversity. None of the many prints have been included here. A few presently here are unidentified and any information concerning these will be appreciated. Much of the data has been assembled by Messrs. Osgood Williams and Arthur D. Fay with additions and captions by M. V. Brewington.

Brittannia. Wood side-wheeler. Built Port Glasgow, 1840. First Cunard Liner.
Painted by Fitz Hugh Lane 1842.