Tugboats FAVORITE and MICHIGAN assisting steamship EASTLAND after sinking in Chicago River, Chicago, Illinois, 1915

real photo postcard, divided back

POSTCARDS
2014 Lang Collection
Max Rigot Selling Co.
USA, IL, Chicago; USA, IL, Chicago River
1915
paper
3-3/8 x 5-3/8 in.

Real photo postcard, divided back; handwritten on back "EB 19409"; printed on back "13 - Published by Max Rigot Co., 37 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago", and "The Eastland righted to an angle of 70°. In the background the powerful tug, Favorite, is shown with its stern partly submerged under the strain of lifting the boat back to an even keel."; tugboats FAVORITE and MICHIGAN assisting steamship EASTLAND after sinking in Chicago River, Chicago, Illinois, 1915; see related postcards 2914.49.5045-5058.


2014.49.5055

Gift of Monika and Steven Lang, 2014


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