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Photograph of the Lady Elgin and Selig & Cohen Manufactory, Urbana, Illinois

Salted paper print photograph depicting the steamship Lady Elgin and the warehouse of Selig & Cohen, clothing manufacturers, importers, and jobbers, located at 104 Lake Street in Urbana, Illinois. The photograph was likely taken sometime before 1860, the year the Lady Elgin sank. The photographer is identified as Samuel Alschuler, a Jewish photographer known for his 1857 ambrotype of Abraham Lincoln.

Associated People/Businesses

ALSCHEULER, SAMUEL / Selig / Cohen

Geography

No geographic information available.

Subjects

Ships
Steamboats
Disasters
Jews--United States

Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Box 2, Folder 1