Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MASSACHUSETTS.) Old Colony Rail Road. Broadside advertisement for a tour of the Gay Head wreck site off Martha's Vineyard. Letterpress broadside, 28 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches; small portion of upper left corner filled, otherwise minor wear, laid down on archival paper. Boston: George H. Ellis, August 1884
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The steamship City of Columbus wrecked on a reef off Gay Head in January 1884, with the loss of more than a hundred passengers and crew. 29 men survived by clinging to the rigging of the partially submerged ship. It was one of the most horrific maritime disasters of its era. This broadside offers a "Grand Excursion to Gay Head (the Scene of the City of Columbus Disaster) and a Visit to the West End of Martha's Vineyard." Disaster tourists from Boston and points south were offered the opportunity to view the wreck from the steamer Monohanset and spend a pleasant three hours at Gay Head before returning home.