(STEAMSHIPS) Lorenz Fred A Titanic Memorial

Sale 2253 - Lot 310

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

POSSIBLY UNIQUE TITANIC BROADSIDE (STEAMSHIPS.) Lorenz, Fred A. Titanic Memorial. Illustrated broadside, 14 x 22 inches; worn, marginal loss at corners, moderate soiling, short closed tears; unrelated manuscript cartoon on verso. Tyrone, OK, 1912

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Features a long poem on the Titanic and an illustration of the ship at sea. The author was a Russian-born farmer and real estate agent in the Oklahoma panhandle. This possibly unique piece was issued as a promotion for The Watchman, a Seventh-Day Adventist publication out of Nashville. It suggests that the Titanic tragedy and other disasters of the day were "prophecy-fulfilling and history-making Signs of the Times." It concludes with the lines "Shall we heed the lesson, and make preparation / While mercy still lingers, or meet a like doom?" Not in WorldCat or otherwise known.