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The Sinking of the Lady Elgin
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A page from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper with two sketches and a narrative of the sinking of the sidewheeler passenger, Lady Elgin, in 1860. Three hundred passengers lost their lives. One sketch is of two passengers clinging to the pilothouse, the other of a passenger clinging to a cabin door.
circa 1859
Leslie, Frank
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WHi 6079
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Sinking of the Lady Elgin
circa 1859
A page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper detailing the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, in 1860. One sketch is of Edward Spencer and his associates pulling passengers from the ...
Lady Elgin Docked
circa 1859
Lithograph from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois in 1860. From a photograph taken on the day prior to her sinking. Sign on h...
Sinking of the Lady Elgin
September 22, 1860
Sketch from the "New York Illustrated News" of the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin. She was struck and sunk by the Augusta on Lake Michigan off Winnetka, Illinois on the morning of S...
Lady Elgin at dock
A sketch of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois.
Man Clinging to Plank after Steamer Sinks
1857
Illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of John Tice clinging to a piece of wreckage after the sinking of the steamer Central America. Other people are afloat in the water around him.
