Search for the body of recent suicide Preston King, Hudson River, November, 1865, artist's impression

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Scanned by

Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College

Scan date

08/03/2013

Notes

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 14, 2015.

Depicted ContentFormer Senator Preston King, Collector of the Port of New York commits suicide in New York Harbor

Image type

engraving

Original caption

Dredging the Hudson River for the body of Preston King.

Source citation

Harper's Weekly Magazine, December 2, 1865, p. 757.

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