Correction: 1857 Shipwreck Auction-Gold Rush story
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1857 Shipwreck Auction-Gold Rush
FILE - This undated drawing made available by the Library of Congress shows the U.S. Mail ship S.S. Central America, which sank after sailing into a hurricane in September 1857 in one of the worst maritime disasters in American history. Riches entombed in the wreckage of the pre-Civil War steamship for more than a century will begin to hit the auction block for the first time Dec. 3, 2022, when more than 300 Gold Rush-era artifacts are offered for public sale in Reno, Nev. (Library of Congress via AP, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS - 2/5
1857 Shipwreck Auction-Gold Rush
In this photo provided by the California Gold Marketing Group is the trunk belonging to S.S. Central America passengers Ansel and Adeline Easton that was discovered on the Atlantic Ocean seabed in 1990. Riches entombed in the wreckage of the pre-Civil War steamship for more than a century will begin to hit the auction block for the first time Dec. 3, 2022, when more than 300 Gold Rush-era artifacts are offered for public sale in Reno, Nev. (California Gold Marketing Group via AP)ASSOCIATED PRESS - 3/5
1857 Shipwreck Auction-Gold Rush
In this 1991 photo provided by the California Gold Marketing Group scientist Bob Evans examines a porthole from the S.S. Central America, after it was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean seabed. Riches entombed in the wreckage of the pre-Civil War steamship for more than a century will begin to hit the auction block for the first time Dec. 3, 2022, when more than 300 Gold Rush-era artifacts are offered for public sale in Reno, Nev. (California Gold Marketing Group via AP)ASSOCIATED PRESS - 4/5
1857 Shipwreck Auction Gold Rush
FILE - Chief scientist Bob Evans looks at gold bars recovered from theS.S. Central Americasteamship that went down in a hurricane in 1857 in a laboratory on Jan. 23, 2018, in Santa Ana, Calif. Riches entombed in the wreckage of the pre-Civil War steamship for more than a century will begin to hit the auction block for the first time Dec. 3, 2022, when more than 300 Gold Rush-era artifacts are offered for public sale in Reno, Nev. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS - 5/5
1857 Shipwreck Auction Gold Rush
Fred Holabird, president of Holabird Western Americana Collections, poses with a catalog of Gold Rush-era collectibles recovered from the 1857 shipwreck of the S.S. Central America in a storage room at his office in Reno, Nev., on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. Items from the shipwreck will be offered for public sale at the first of two public auctions on Dec. 3 in Reno. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)ASSOCIATED PRESS
RENO, Nev. (AP) — In a story published November 30, 2022, about the auction of artifacts recovered from an 1857 shipwreck, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the college at Ohio State University where researchers studied the clothing. It was Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology.