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    The destruction of the Caroline steamboat by fire, on the Falls of Niagara, Upper Canada, on the night of Friday the 29th Decr. 1837 Drawn by G. Tattershall Engraved by J. Harris London, Published 15

    Lithograph with watercolour on wove paper. Laid down on cardboard

    Lithograph on wove paper. Laid down on wove paper.

    Pen and black ink over traces of moderate greenish blue pencil on wove paper. Laid down on wove paper laid down on album page

   

    Lurid, fictionalized image of CAROLINE plunging over Niagara Falls (it didn't), with multiple bodies falling from the steamboat (there weren't).

    Another fictionalized image of CAROLINE plunging over Niagara Falls (it didn't)

    Engraving of the steamer Caroline published in John Ross Robertson, Landmarks of Toronto: A Collection of Historical Sketches of the Old Town of York From 1792 until 1833, and of Toronto From 1834 to

    Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899.