"Lost on the Lady Elgin"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Work, Henry Clay; Higgins, Hiram M.
USA, IL, Chicago; USA, Lake Michigan
1861
paper
13-3/8 x 10-3/8 in.

Sheet music, "Lost on the Lady Elgin", "SONG AND/ CHORUS/ COMMEMORATING/ THE/ Terrible Lake Disaster/ of Friday Night Sept. 7th 1860"; words and music by Henry C[lay] Work; published Chicago by H.M. Higgins, 1861; printed by [J.C.?] Pearson; cover in scrolls and various typefaces; 3 pages. The song commemorates the sinking of the steamship LADY ELGIN, which sank in a storm on September 7, 1860, after being rammed by the schooner AUGUSTA; the LADY ELGIN was returning to Milwaukee from Chicago, with members of Milwaukee's Union Guard who had traveled to Chicago to hear a campaign speech by Stephen A. Douglas.

2005.102.5