Author: J.B. GEOGHEGAN
Title: Lines on the Great Flood, Which occurred at Sheffield Through the Bursting of the Bradfield Dam, betwixt the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, on the Morning of Saturday, March the 12th, 1864.
Description: Sheffield: G. Burgin and Son, Printers, [1864] 320 x 200 mm. printed on silk, split horizontally along the top blank area> framed and glazed. The Great Flood led to 798 houses destroyed and abandoned, 4,357 flooded, and over 250 persons drowned. Copies at Sheffield [also on silk according to appended letter from Sheffield Archives dated 19th November 1966]> copies also at University of Leeds and York Minster [medium not stated].

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