Here are some images commemorating the sinking of the General Slocum on June 15, 1904, one hundred and twenty years ago.
The great catastrophe of the passenger steamboat General Slocum (Angelo Agostini, O Malho, 1904).Bodies washing up on North Brother Island.
St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, built in 1847 for the German immigrant community, was converted to a synagogue in 1940 due to demographic changes in the neighborhood.
The General Slocum disaster memorial in Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan, New York City, which was once part of the Little Germany neighborhood.
The General Slocum Memorial in the Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens is home to the graves of many victims of the disaster.
