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1904 illustrated newspaper GENERAL SLOCUM steamboat disaster NY 1000 persons die

1904 illustrated newspaper \"GENERAL SLOCUM\" steamboat disaster New York City with over 1000 persons deadin a fire - inv # 2Z-405

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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINALillustrated NEWSPAPER,the ILLUSTRATED LONDONNEWS (England)datedJuly 2, 1904.This original illustrated newspaper contains 2 pages of photos, text. and a dramatic engraving of theGeneral Slocum steamboat disaster in which over 1000 persons died out of 1342 passengers present on the steamboat.

The PS General Slocum was a sidewheel passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891. During her service history, she was involved in a number of mishaps, including multiple groundings and collisions.

On June 15, 1904, General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River of New York City. At the time of the accident, she was on a chartered run carrying members of St. Mark\'s Evangelical Lutheran Church (German Americans from Little Germany, Manhattan) to a church picnic. An estimated 1,021 out of the 1,342 people on board died.

The General Slocum disaster was the worst maritime disaster of the 20th century until the Titanic surpassed it eight years later in 1912. It remains the worst maritime disaster in New York City history, and the second-worst on United States waterways, after the explosion and sinking of the steamboat Sultana, and until the September 11 attacks in 2001 was the deadliest man made disaster of any sort in the New York area.

The Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world\'s first illustrated weekly newspaper / news magazine. The magazine was published weekly for most of its existence.

Photographic and printing techniques were advancing in the later years of the 19th century, and The Illustrated London News began to introduce photos and artwork into its depictions of weekly events. From about 1890, The Illustrated London News made increasing use of photography. The tradition of graphic illustrations continued, however, until the end of World War I. Often, rough sketches of distant events with handwritten explanations were supplied by observers and then worked on by artists in London to produce polished end products for publication. This was particularly the case where popular subjects such as colonial or foreign military campaigns did not lend themselves to clear illustration using the limited camera technology of the period. By the 1920s and 1930s, the pictures that dominated each issue of the magazine were almost exclusively photographic, although artists might still be used to illustrate in pictorial form topics such as budgetary expenditure or the layout of coal mines.

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