Four views, lifesaving crews and boats

photo-engraving

PRINTS - ENGRAVINGS
Burns, Milton J.
1910
paper
sheet: 9-3/4 x 12-1/4 in.; image: 2-3/4 x 2-1/4 in.; image: 2-1/4 x 3-1/4 in.; image: 3-1/4 x 4-7/8 in.; image 3-1/4 x 4-7/8 in.

Photo-engraving, half tone, engraver's proof of illustration by Milton J. Burns; four images; upper left: portrait of Charles Edward Fish in sou'wester hat and lifevest, handwritten "Charles Edward Fish/ (?) chief coxswain of the/ Ramsgate life boat-/ assisted to save 887 lives/ was out on service 863 times-", signed in plate middle right "BurnS-1910-/ May 10-"; upper right: lifeboat on launching ramp, covered, schooners in background; lower left: life boat under sail with crew; signed in the plate lower left "BurnS."; lower right: life boat crew with lifevests on in heavy seas with bare rig; signed in the plate lower left "BurnS".

2001.12.28