Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,864 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history.
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| Ill-fated "Sultana", Helena, Arkansas, just prior to its explosion on April 27, 1865. The photograph is very grainy. The Library printed this image from a glass copy negative |
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