photo-engraving

Photo-engraving, half tone, engraver's proof of illustration by Milton J. Burns; 9 lifesavers in lifeboat in heavy sea; signed in the plate lower left "BurnS-/ -1900-"; signed in pencil lower right "M.J. Burns." Stamped in purple "TRIMMED." Ref: Illustration for "The Life-Savers' Ride of a Hundred Miles" by Worth G. Ross, "St. Nicholas", Dec. 1900, p. 154, caption "By strenuous and undaunted exertions the oarsmen succeeded in crossing the reefs, alive with foaming breakers."