A wood-engraving of a similar view "From a photograph by D.C. Beere, Esq." (Daniel Manders Beere) is in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, 4 April 1857, p. 272 (see Joan M. Schwartz, "Documenting Disaster", Archivaria, no. 25, Winter 1987-88, pp. 147-54).

Inscribed on the stone, l.l.: Drawn for the Colonist by Armstrong I Toronto; l.r.: Maclear & Co. Lith Toronto.; l.c.: THE DESJARDINS CANAL BRIDGE, / Sketched the Morning after the late Melancholy Railway Accident / Toronto, Published by Thompson & Co.

THOMPSON AND COMPANY, Toronto

Public Domain

Lithograph on wove paper

227 x 384; 248 x 384; 339 x 509 mm