Please Don't Quote Me This Week
Currier's first big commercial success occured in 1840 with the reporting of "The Awful Conglagration of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound, Monday Ev'g January 13, 1840." It was a broadside issued with a New York Sun-Extra within just a day or two of the tragedy. Such "speed" and "eyewitness" to an event caught the public's fancy. They wanted more.
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