Postcard: [1900 Hoboken Pier fire.] The Blazing Saale in Mid Stream. Private mailing card; unposted.
Entry/Object ID
2006.034.0683
Description
Postcard: [1900 Hoboken Pier fire.] The Blazing Saale in Mid Stream. Private mailing card; unposted. Undivided back.
Publisher: Copyright, 1900, Arthur Strauss, Inc. Publishers, New York. Stock number 112.
Artists depiction (after a photograph) from the river of the June 30,1900 fire. The ocean liner S.S. Saale was a North German Lloyd Line ship.
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Small text at the top left front: "Doomed men crying for aid out of the cramped portholes."
