photo-engraving

Photo-engraving, half tone, engraver's proof of illustration by Milton J. Burns; locomotive pulling flatcars with lifeboats, and passenger car; signed in the plate lower left "BurnS-/ -1900-" and signed in pencil lower right "M.J. Burns." Stamped in purple upper right "TRIMMED." Ref: Illustration for "The Life-Savers' Ride of a Hundred Miles" by Worth G. Ross, "St. Nicholas", Dec. 1900, p. 157; caption: "Although the track was heavy with snow, the powerful locomotive raced on at high speed through the driving tempest."