Mini card of Seattle Post Intelligencer LUSITANIA headline

card

EPHEMERA
Topps Company Inc.
USA, WA, Seattle
paper
overall: 2 x 2 7/8 in.

A Topps "Scoop" trading card for the sinking of the LUSITANIA. This was a series of cards produced in 1954 about famous events in history. The front is an artist's dramatic and colorful representation of the burning ship sinking with lifeboats around it and survivors clinging to debris. The back has a reproduction Seattle Post Intelligencer headline about the sinking. At the bottom there is a note "See Scoop No. 6-- President Lincoln Assassinated."


2020.39.7048

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