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Where the Land Meets the Sea: Shipwrecks of Nova Scotia

"The Great Wreck"

Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, 19 April 1873, p. 85. The two images on this page are entitled "Nova Scotia — Sambro Light, off Halifax" and "Nova Scotia — Scene on Marr's Island the Morning after the Wreck of the Atlantic — Fishermen Finding the Bodies Washed Ashore", from sketches by Joseph Becker.

Date: 1873

Medium: newspaper sketch

Artist: Joseph Becker

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives  MG 100 Vol. 228 #7 mfm #9744

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