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Thought some of you would be interested in this. I was not sure where to post it. My husband has some of this early photography of his family from the civil war.
In 1857, a steam boat was going down in a storm off the coast of South Carolina. Loaded with more gold than had ever been placed onto a boat, the passengers chose to take photographs of family and loved ones before taking their chance with Davy Jones.
Thank to a recent expedition, dozens of these 150-year-old glass pane photographs have been recovered, putting a face on the SS Central America‘s unfortunates.
If the Titanic was the “Ship of Dreams,” Central America was the “Ship of Gold,” and of her 425 lost souls, most were miners returning from California gold fields wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
Continued below.
Doomed Ship of Gold’s Ghostly Portrait Gallery is Finally Unveiled After Surviving for a Century on Sea Floor
In 1857, a steam boat was going down in a storm off the coast of South Carolina. Loaded with more gold than had ever been placed onto a boat, the passengers chose to take photographs of family and loved ones before taking their chance with Davy Jones.
Thank to a recent expedition, dozens of these 150-year-old glass pane photographs have been recovered, putting a face on the SS Central America‘s unfortunates.
If the Titanic was the “Ship of Dreams,” Central America was the “Ship of Gold,” and of her 425 lost souls, most were miners returning from California gold fields wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
Continued below.
Doomed Ship of Gold’s Ghostly Portrait Gallery is Finally Unveiled After Surviving for a Century on Sea Floor
