[Rarebooks] FS: 1878 Mourning Card for the 700 Passengers of the ‘Princess Alice’

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1878 Mourning Card for the 700 Passengers of the ‘Princess Alice’.  $250

A dramatic mourning card in white and black showing willows, an angel 
and a wrecked sailing ship. “In Memory of Nearly Seven Hundred 
Passengers Who perished by the sinking of the Saloon Steamer, ‘Princess 
Alice,’ in the Thames, off Woolwich, September 3rd, 1878”. The ‘Princess 
Alice was an excursion steamer which was returning up the Thames after 
an early evening run; she was within site of her home pier when she was 
struck by another ship traveling down the Thames. Cut almost in half, 
the ‘Princess Alice’ sank in less than 4 minutes and many of the 
victims’ bodies were found trapped in her stairwells and saloons. Of the 
more than 800 people on board, only about a hundred survived. Card. 
4.5”x3”. Minor soil.  [44295]

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