The Wreck of the Eastland, Illinois, 1915 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with The Wreck of the Eastland, Illinois, 1915, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: The wreck of the Eastland
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The Wreck of the Eastland, Illinois, 1915
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Chicago in July 1915 was a city of meatpacking yards, steel mills, and rail lines, and on July 24 the excursion steamer Eastland rolled onto its side at its Clark Street dock on the Chicago River. The ship was loading employees of the Western Electric Company's Hawthorne Works in Cicero and their families for an outing to Michigan City, Indiana, when it capsized while still tied up, killing 844 people, most of them women and children. It remains the deadliest disaster in the city's history. Investigators later pointed to the vessel's instability, including extra lifeboats added high on the upper decks and problems with ballast. The tragedy left Chicagoans with lasting questions about how passenger ships on the river were inspected.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Creator | kaufmann, weimer & fabry co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,244 × 1,317 px · prints to 17 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The wreck of the Eastland |
| Reference | IL The Wreck of the Eastland 1915 |
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