[Transportation] Circa 1860 Broadside Advertising the USS Daylight, a Freight Ship Operating Between New York and Boston, Later Acquired by the Union Navy for Service in the Civil War

New York, ca. 1860. Printed broadside, 16 x 11 1/4 in. (406 x 286 mm). Two engraved vignettes of ships. Top left corner chipped; scattered soiling.

A broadside advertising the use of a freight ship between New York and Boston. The USS Daylight was a 682-ton screw steamship built in Brooklyn by Samuel Sneden, later acquired by the Union Navy in May 1862 for Civil War service. It functioned as an armed gunboat patrolling the Atlantic Coast and Virginia waterways. Later in 1862, the Daylight joined the bombardment and capture of Fort Macon, North Carolina, receiving a damaging shot in her hull. It was sold in 1865.

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How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

[Transportation] Circa 1860 Broadside Advertising the USS Daylight, a Freight Ship Operating Between New York and Boston, Later Acquired by the Union Navy for Service in the Civil War

How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

[Transportation] Circa 1860 Broadside Advertising the USS Daylight, a Freight Ship Operating Between New York and Boston, Later Acquired by the Union Navy for Service in the Civil War

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