Eastland disaster: Media

maritime disaster, Chicago River, Chicago, Illinois, United States [1915]

Videos

Witness attempts to rescue and recover passengers from the capsized steamship Eastland in Chicago
Learn about the Eastland disaster by watching footage of efforts to rescue and recover...
Video: Courtesy of EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam
One of America's worst maritime disasters: The SS Eastland
An overview of the Eastland.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
See recovery workers righting the capsized Eastland in the Chicago River, 1915
Recovery workers righting the capsized Eastland in the Chicago River, Chicago,...
Video: Courtesy of EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam

Images

SS Eastland
Passengers being rescued from the SS Eastland after it capsized in the Chicago River,...
AP/Shutterstock.com
Quick facts about the Eastland disaster
The American passenger liner SS Eastland capsized on the Chicago River on July 24,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
Eastland disaster
Passengers standing on the side of the capsized Eastland, on the Chicago...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-126620)
Eastland disaster memorial plaque and commemoration wreath
A wreath commemorating the 109th anniversary of the Eastland disaster, along...
© Barbara Schreiber
memorial Eastland plaque in Chicago
Memorial plaque commemorating the Eastland disaster, Chicago.
© René Ostberg