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Eastland Disaster Inner Photos Revealed by Tribune Archive
New glass plate negatives from the 1915 Eastland catastrophe show interior views of the doomed excursion steamer and its aftermath. The images, discovered in Tribune Tower archives by Marian ne Mather, provide rare, interior perspectives of the disaster that killed more than 840 people.
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