Hamburg-American Line steamship GRAF WALDERSEE, before 1905
postcard, illustration
POSTCARDS2014 Lang Collection
Kutzner & Berger; Bohrdt, Hans; Universal Postal Union
USA, NY, Brooklyn, Red Hook
before 1905
paper
3-5/8 x 5-5/8 in.
Postcard, illustration; handwritten on back "8-84"; printed on back "Postkarte - Weltpostverein"; postmarked "Nov 11 1905"; printed on front "Hamburg-Amerika / LINIE", and "An Bord des Dampfers" and handwritten "'Graf Waldersee'"; signed "Hans Bohrdt"; handwritten note " . . . To-day instead of steaming out into the ocean, we are lying on the sand whither our pilot led us in the dark of the morning. Hope to get off with high tide at about 4 P.M. . . "; Hamburg-American Line steamship GRAF WALDERSEE, before 1905; see related photographs 2008.28.8.493-495, .628-630 showing vessel aground off Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 1905.
2014.49.3842
Gift of Monika and Steven Lang, 2014