Tugboat PRINTER leaving Seward, Alaska, with relief after Katmai Volcano eruption, Kodiak Island, 1912

real photo postcard, divided back

Real photo postcard, divided back; handwritten on back "EB 20109", and vessel specifications; Velox stamp box (1907-1909) on back; handwritten on front at bottom "FIRST BOAT LEAVING SEWARD, ALASKA WITH RELIEF FOR KODIAK / SUFFERERS KATMI VOLCANO", and lower right "L.H.P."; tugboat PRINTER leaving Seward, Alaska, with relief after Katmai Volcano eruption, Kodiak Island, 1912. Ref: Connecticut Western News, June 13, 1912; "The first direct news of conditions on Kodiak island, which was almost devastated by the eruption of Katmai volcano, was received when the tug Printer arrived at Seward, bringing Lieutenant Searles of the Revenue Cutter .Manning and J. E. Eskin, a merchant of Kodiak. who appealed for assistance for the stricken people on the island. Lieutenant Searles said that the food supply at Kadiak was sufficient to last only fifteen days. All the crops on the island were destroyed, and millions of fish were killed by the sand and ashes that fell Into the water. The water supply Is polluted by decaying fish, and springs have been stopped up with ashes." [ https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027718/1912-06-13/ed-1/seq-6/ocr.txt]

Gift of Monika and Steven Lang, 2014.