2010.54.9123
Associated News Service: 171 Lost on U.S. transport "Tuscania"
c. 1918
17.12 in HIGH x 14.19 in WIDE
(43.50 cm HIGH x 36.04 cm WIDE)
(43.50 cm HIGH x 36.04 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.9123
Along the bottom edge is "Vol. 5 No. 20, Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays by Elliott Service Co., Inc., New York...Feb. 15, 1918." In the bottom right corner of the image is "Copyright Underwood & Underwood, N.Y. / From Elliott Service Co., New York."
Poster consists of black print on white paper. Image depicts the "Tuscania," a Cunard liner used as a military transport during World War I that was sunk by a U-boat off the Irish coast, in the ocean. Text at the top of the poster has "Associated News Service / Latest World Events in Pictures" with a globe and utility poles on either side with the lines of the poles running through the text. Text under the image describes the sinking of the ship identified in this stock image.
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