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Item Number: POST1003
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Circa: 1915
Size: Post Card
Publisher: Eastland
Rare original S.S. Eastland July 24 1915 shipwreck rpc photo set of 12. Note Happy Hardhat Divers and post mortem death close ups.
Card 1 Reads on back, Tenderly removing, from the hold, a body in which a spark of life still lingers.
Card 2 is line of people identifying the dead.
Card 3 reads on back, Gruesome scene in temporary morque, Second Regiment Armory, where over 700 bodies were removed to, immediately after being recovered.
Card 4 reads on back, One funeral-29 coffins. Scene at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Hawthorne, during the service for victims of the Eastland disaster.
Card 5 Reads on back, Police are here shown recovering bodies from between decks of the capsized Steamer Eastland.
Card 6 rescuers at work on steamer Eastland.
Card 7 Crowds waiting to identify bodies.
Card 8 reads on back, View of Eastland, taken from Fire Tug in river, showing the hull resting on its side on the river bottom. The work of recovering bodies is being carried on with untiring efforts.
Card 9 picture of SS Eastland at Michigan City Docks & Capt. M. Pederson.
Card 10 Picture of recovering bodies after the disaster.
Card 11 reads on back, Divers, whos untiring efforts aided greatly in the recovery of bodies from the hull of the ill-fated Eastland.
Card 12 reads on back, Members of Chicago Fire and Police Department engaged in the recovery of bodies from sunken hold of Steamer Eastland.
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