Fireboat ALKI, Seattle, Washington

real photo postcard, color, divided back, white border

POSTCARDS
2014 Lang Collection
Robbins-Tillquist Company; Curt Teich & Co.
USA, WA, Seattle
paper
3-1/2 x 5-1/2 in.

Real photo postcard, color, divided back, white border; handwritten on back "4 6-98"; printed on back "2063.29", and "ROBBINS-TILLQUIST CO., SPOKANE, WASH.", and "An unusual photograph of this monster fire-fighting vessel . . .", and logo for Curt Teich & Co.; printed on front upper right "2063 THE ALKI OF SEATTLE, THE WORLD'S LARGEST FIREBOAT", and lower left "THE MOST POWERFUL FIRE FIGHTING VESSEL OF ITS KIND IN EXISTENCE"; fireboat ALKI, Seattle, Washington; see duplicate postcards 2014.49.2883-2885.

2014.49.2883

Gift of Monika and Steven Lang, 2014