The photograph is located in the photograph binders in the Reading Room
Provenance is unknown.
Published
Title based on contents of the collection
This collection consists of one photograph of a painting of the barque "Railway King", ca. 1872. The artist is unknown. The barque "Railway King" was built in Summerside on 12 December 1871 by James Colledge Pope. The sailing ship had 3 masts and 2 decks. She measured 166 feet long, 34 feet wide, 17 feet deep and weighed 789 tons. Her master was Captain Allan Finlayson of Vernon River. On 14 June 1872, she was turned over to merchant James Malcolm of Liverpool. She went down off Cape Canso, Nova Scotia on 9 December 1872.
This photograph was sent to the Public Archives and Records Office by Charles A. Armour, Archivist, Dalhousie University, 13 June 1977
This photograph was commissioned by Charles A. Armour, Archivist at Dalhousie University Library, in 1977. The original painting was in the possession of Miss Muriel Lucus of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was the granddaughter of Captain Allan Finlayson.
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