This image shows a drawing of the shipwrecking of the SS Georgette in 1876. The drawing originally appeared in the Illustrated Sydney News on 3 February 1877. It is incorrect in a number of details.
A digital image of the drawing was created by the State Library of Western Australia and is available from the Library Information Service of Western Australia (LISWA) website. The LISWA image includes an assertion of copyright 2001, but this assertion is incorrect: the image is in the public domain under both Australian and US copyright law. This digital image is a cropped version of the LISWA digital image that eliminates the incorrect copyright notice.
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This image shows a drawing of the shipwrecking of the ''SS Georgette'' in 1876. The drawing originally appeared in the ''Illustrated Sydney News'' on 3 February 1877. It is incorrect in a number of details. A digital image of the drawing was created by