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Unidentified salvage operation, rocks in water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5052
View albumen print
October 10, 1899
1990.9.34
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, starboard view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.660
View sign
1989.61.2
View copy photograph
Beattie, Robert
Circa 1920
1994.53.346
View Floating derrick raising tug THOMAS F. O'BRIEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1022
View Floating derrick and salvage of barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.478
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising railroad car No. 11
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.513
View Unidentified wharf scene; salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.516
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising dredge PACIFIC, Delaware Bay, January 5, 1897
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1897-01-05
1964.660.69
View Floating derrick MONARCH working over wreck
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.70
View Barge INDEPENDENT being floated off Riverhead Beach, L. I., NY
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1899-04-25
1964.660.76
View Floating derrick MONARCH unloading vessel from steamship
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.79
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising B&O lighter POTOMAC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-04-26
1964.660.606
View Lifting and pumping S. S. LEONA, East River, New York, October 19, 1899
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1899-10-19
1964.660.84
View Two lighters during salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.123
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, port bow view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.654
View Unidentified salvage operation in harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.138
View Steamer POUGHKEEPSIE run ashore; steam lighter RAYMOND of Hartford
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-03
1964.660.139
View Tugboat UNITY towing steamer POUGHKEEPSIE, Hudson River, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-03-21
1964.660.142
View Tug CHAMPION working over wrecked and sunken sailing vessel
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1899
1964.660.168
View Floating derrick MONARCH and tug HUSTLER working over wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.231
View Floating derrick CENTURY and unidentified wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.232
View Salvage of tug TRANSFER NO. 3
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.252
View Starboard view of S.S. FRI and steamer RESCUE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902
1964.660.269
View Floating derrick, sunken steam canal boat S. L. CLARK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.313
View Railroad salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.324
View Raising dredge BALTIC sunk in Delaware River
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.331
View Raising dredge BALTIC from Delaware River
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-04
1964.660.332
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising tug UTICA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.817
View Floating derrick raising unidentified vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1049
View Salvaging metal from unidentified sunken wreck, possibly DUNHOLME
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1050
View Raising sunken barge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-10
1964.660.350
View Spar in icy water around unidentified submerged wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.356
View Raising schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.358
View Raising of schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.366
View Raising sunken vessel, possibly steamer
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.377
View Floating derrick CHANCELLOR raising Mutual Milk & Cream Co. truck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1100
View Mutual Milk & Cream Co. truck on deck of floating derrick CHANCELLOR
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1103
View Floating derrick raising tug NEW YORK CENTRAL NO. 22 on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-02-05
1964.660.391
View Floating derrick CENTURY salvaging railroad float
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.403
View Raised railroad float
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.405
View Floating derrick raising barge RAGUSA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.407
View S. S. BRIGHTON, starboard view, ashore at Atlantic City, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-03-31
1964.660.413
View Raising steamship, possibly small coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12
1964.660.1110
View Lighter JOHN W. CHITTENDEN and sunken steamship, possibly small coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12
1964.660.1113
View Sunken steamship, possibly small coastal steamer GRECIAN and lighter JOHN W. CHITTENDEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12
1964.660.1114
View Lighters HENRY SEYMOUR, JOHN W. CHITTENDEN and sunken steamship, possibly GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12
1964.660.1117
View Salvage of sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1129
View Salvage of sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN, lighter HENRY SEYMOUR
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1131
View Salvage of sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN, lighter HENRY SEYMOUR and derrick EDGAR
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1132
View Coastal steamer GRECIAN, sunken and ice-covered
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1139
View Raising sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1143
View Hoisting rifle from deck of battleship INDIANA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-04-29
1964.660.435
View Derrick MONARCH hoisting rifle from deck of battleship INDIANA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-04-29
1964.660.442
View Floating derrick hoisting hull remains of wreck of LOIS V. CHAPPELS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.900
View S.S. NANTUCKET capsized, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.922
View Derrick CAPITOL preparing to raise wreck of Lehigh Valley tugboat GENESEE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.927
View Wrecked S. S. DUNHOLME, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.932
View Salvage of tugboat ROBERT WHITE, Penn. Railroad barge in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1164
View Floating derrick hoisting gun turret
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1914-01-20
1964.660.1168
View Floating derrick CAPITOL raising lighter GLENOLA, derrick barge COMMISSARY, working coal barge, in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1182
View Salvaging railroad cars from sunken railroad carfloat at slip in Brooklyn
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1275
View Floating derrick COLOSSUS raising unidentified steamboat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2869
View Port bow view of steamer C.F. BRADY of Peekskill, being raised
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2594
View Sunken floating derrick CORPORATION
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2929
View Derrick CENTURY raising capsized vessel HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2634
View Capsized vessel HELL GATE being raised
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2636
View Floating derrick CAPITOL raising unidentified vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1341
View Floating derrick CAPITOL raising unidentified vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1342
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, view of deck
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1352
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, view of deck, pipe laying ways in background
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1353
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising sunken floating derrick CORPORATION, steamer FREEPORT SULPHUR NO. 5, floating derrick COLOSSUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2931
View Salvage of S.S. EGREMONT, stern view, floating derricks CONVOY and CENTURY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2939
View Pumping out damaged vessel, possibly HELL GATE salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2673
View Derricks CAPITOL and CENTURY raising tug TRANSFER NO. 5, New Haven
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1367
View Floating derrick CHIEF hoisting metal from steamship COROZAL at wharf, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1389
View Salvage of tug TRANSFER NO. 5 of New Haven; repair to damaged hull, in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3032
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1487
View Floating derrick raising unidentified sunken vessel, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3111
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derrick COLLEGIAN raising wrecked vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3129
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derricks CONVEYOR and MONARCH raising wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3145
View Unidentified salvage operation, capsized vessel at dock, buildings in background are Mungessor-Dickinson Seed Co., wholesale grass seeds, office and warehouse
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3154
View Unidentified salvage operation, boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3181
View Unidentified salvage operation, twisted metal from damaged vessel or wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3197
View Page 11, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR", fig. 14, pumping operations at the first attempt to right the ship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3254
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2309
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2321
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2333
View Floating derricks hoisting debris from unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2342
View Floating derrick raising unidentified sunken vessel (barge)?
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1746
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, bow view in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1511
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, reconstructing hull in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1522
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1525
View Salvage of steamship SAGUA, deck damage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1780
View Bow of floating grain elevator CERES after righting by floating derricks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922
1964.660.2460
View Salvage of steamship ANTILLA, of New York, with lighters
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1576
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, view of damaged port side
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2491
View Salvage of barge sunk at wharf, probably owned by Stock Yard Company
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1596
View Sunken barge GEORGE E., salvage operation at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1601
View Floating derrick raising unidentified wrecked vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1874
View Raising unidentified wrecked vessel, D.H. Perry & Son grain elevator in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1875
View Salvage of sunken steamer ELEANOR F. PECK, at wharf, derrick EDGAR, barge WANDERG...
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1625
View Hoisting container, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1894
View Floating derrick raising unidentified vessel, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1908
View Unidentified salvage operation at Lehigh Valley pier No. 44, pumping out vessel, tug EDGAR BAXTER at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1921
View Page 22, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR"; fig. 28 view looking aft; showing damage done by the S.S. ST. PAUL with air-cylinders in foreground
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3294
View Unloading barrels, barge W.C. MOTT at left, salvage of steamship H.F. DIMOCK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1939
View Starboard view of steamship HUTTONWOOD, salvage operation, with lighters SAXON, HENRY SEYMOUR and RESOLUTE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2010
View Pumping out vessel, possibly steamship HUTTONWOOD, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2014
View Port view of salvage of steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1918-04-26
1964.660.2042
View Salvage of steamship ST. PAUL, June 2, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-02
1964.660.2064
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2087
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2089
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2101
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2102
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 11, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-11
1964.660.2120
View Salvage operation, unidentified machinery and debris on deck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2141
View Salvage operation, unidentified machinery and debris on deck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2142
View Salvage of S. S. BERMUDEZ of Philadelphia
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2146
View Drawing for Sommergibile Avtonomo
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2230
View Machinery on deck, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2254
View Machinery in box, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2255
View Unidentified salvage scene, on deck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5035
View Unidentified salvage operation, twisted cranes
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5046
View Salvage of S.S. MAIN and S.S. BREMEN after pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.5066
View Salvage of S.S McPHERSON, February 5, 1901, stranded at Matanzas, Cuba, men standing on bridge from ship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-02-05
1964.660.5080
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, bow view, sunken, lighter CASCADE at left
gelatin glass negative
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works
1964.660.1636
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, view of deck, awash
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1641
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, view of bow damage, lighter CASCADE at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1644
View Raising of steamship LANSING
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1647
View Tugboats HUSTLER and TASCO raising a barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1653
View Steamer KEYPORT, bow view, sunk at the Battery, New York, with floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1670
View Salvage of steamer KEYPORT, at the Battery, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1678
View Stern view of tug GOV. FLOWER of Perth Amboy, on its side; derrick CENTURY at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1684
View View of bottom of tug GOV. FLOWER of Perth Amboy, on its side; floating derrick CENTURY at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1686
View Unidentified salvage operation, pumping out vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4879
View Raising barge DETROIT, November 8, 1906, near Philadelphia, PA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916
1964.660.1712
View Pumping out barge DETROIT, near Philadelphia, PA, 1916
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916
1964.660.1721
View 4-Masted ship COUNTY OF EDINBURGH stranded at Point Pleasant, NJ, February 12, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-12
2008.28.3.103
View Barney dumping scow on floating dry dock, October 3, 1895
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-10-03
2008.28.3.14
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 27, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-27
2008.28.3.150
View US Army Transport RAWLINS, deck view, sunk at Pier 22, Brooklyn, NY, April 10, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-10
2008.28.3.154
View Raising ferry NORTHFIELD after collision, East River, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.3.165
View Central Railroad of New Jersey drawbridge, Newark Bay, NJ, April 16, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-04-16
1964.521.14
View Ship J.G. WALKER ashore on Governor's Island, NY Harbor, February 5, 1896
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-02-05
2008.28.3.21
View Tugboat AMERICA being raised by derrick RELIANCE at Pier 14, New York City, June 11, 1896
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-06-11
2008.28.3.23
View Floating derrick CENTURY and unidentified wreck; circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.551
View Panoramic view of salvage vessels working around wreck of U.S.S. MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898
2008.28.3.65
View Wreck of USS MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1898
2008.28.3.67
View Wreck of USS MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1898-02-15
2008.28.3.68
View Schooner Yacht ALSACIENNE sunk, Port Jefferson Harbor, NY, during Storm November 26-27,1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1898-11-26
2008.28.3.79
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.84
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.85
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.92
View Pumping out steamer CEPHEUS, sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.96
View albumen print
Circa 1890
1996.49.35
View Salvage workers on dock with equipment, Bethlehem Shipbuilding dock, San Pedro, California, July 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-07
1962.1249.40
View Pumping out burned vessel, probably pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.249
View Wreck and fire, sunk sidewheel steamer with tugboats, probably Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, January 9, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-01-09
2008.28.4.263
View Men lowering submersible electrically-driven salvage pumps used by Merritt & Chapman Co., circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1040
View Machinery or wreck debris, including wheel axle, on deck of floating derrick?, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.991
View Machinery or wreck debris on deck of floating derrick?, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.992
View Machinery or wreck debris on deck of floating derrick?, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.996
View Twisted metal (vessel sheathing?) hoisted on deck of floating derrick CENTURY, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.510
View Workmen on floating derrick, probably at city wharf, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.5.36
View Tugboat MARY ARNOLD sunk at the entrance to Cape Cod Canal, Buzzards Bay, MA, on June 16, 1913
photographic postcard
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-06
1964.570
View Pay slips for Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co. project, April 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-04
2008.28.5.142
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.1
View Steamship ONTARIO (probably), in dry dock after fire, off Montauk Long Island, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.4
View Steamship ONTARIO, in dry dock after fire, off Montauk Long Island, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.5
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, off Montauk Long Island, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.8
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.5
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.5
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.1
View nitrate negative
Welt, Jess
1917
1980.140.4
View Salvage operation, possibly S.S. JUANITA, stranded, Venezuela, 1/10/1925, truck on dock
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4693
View Salvage operation, probably S.S. JUANITA, stranded Venezuela, 1/10/1925, equipment in volved with salvage
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4696
View S. S. ZULIA, stranded, stern view
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4704
View Unidentified salvage operation, derrick hoisting machinery
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5053
View Unidentified salvage operation; stranded steam ship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5054
View photograph
1933
1979.54.396
View Floating derrick raising sunken tugboat LEONARD RICHARDS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.992
View Unidentified salvage operation at Hamburg American Line Pier 2
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1006
View Floating derrick raising railroad car
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1007
View Floating derrick raising vessel (....SULLIVAN)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1028
View Pumping out vessel (....SULLIVAN)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1029
View Starboard view of the raising of tugboat LEADER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1241
View Floating derrick hoisting scow
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.466
View Tug HUSTLER working over sunken sailing vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.523
View Port view of steamer PLYMOUTH, floating derrick RELIANCE
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1894-06
1964.660.5
View Raising of scow SISTERS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.550
View Smith's derricks placing cattleboat CHELSEA on dry dock after sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-03-07
1964.660.558
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising tug McCALDIN BROS.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-02
1964.660.610
View Derrick raising tug McCALDIN BROS. after sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-02
1964.660.622
View Derrick raising tug McCALDIN BROS. after sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-02
1964.660.623
View Steamer ST. DUNSTAN afire and sunk at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, January 9, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-01-09
1964.660.132
View Unidentified salvage operation in harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.134
View Unidentified salvage operation in harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.136
View Men on deck of ferry NORTHFIELD after collision in East River, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.157
View Yacht VENITZIA sunk off Captains Island, Long Island Sound, July 19, 1901
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-07-19
1964.660.167
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, starboard view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.659
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, starboard view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.664
View Salvage of railroad float ashore, floating derrick behind
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.176
View Floating derricks CENTURY and MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.205
View Marine diver in diving suit aboard MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.223
View Office; metal containers
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.225
View Bill from the Brown Hoisting Machinery Co.
gelatin glass negative
Brown Hoisting Machinery Co.
1902
1964.660.245
View Floating derrick MONARCH lifting 16" rifle from lighter CAPT. TOM
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-04
1964.660.291
View Sunken vessel, floating derrick, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.310
View Pumping out railroad car float #36
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.338
View Floating derrick raising unidentified vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1047
View Raising sunken dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-10
1964.660.352
View Raising schooner THOMAS L. PARKER, sunk off Weehawken, N.J.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.357
View Floating derricks raising schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.363
View Wreck of DUNHOLME (possibly), floating derrick COMPTROLLER hoisting metal
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1086
View Unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1099
View Tug NEW YORK CENTRAL NO. 22 being raised by floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-02-05
1964.660.393
View S. S. BRIGHTON, starboard view, ashore at Atlantic City, NJ
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-03-31
1964.660.414
View Floating derrick CENTURY and lighter F.R. SHARP(?) raising S.S. JOSE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-12
1964.660.894
View S.S. JOSE being raised after fire, tug A.W. SMITH, derrick CAPITOL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.895
View Pumping out S.S. JOSE after fire on Pier 8, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.896
View Salvage of sunken vessel GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1124
View Salvage of coastal steamer GRECIAN, hoisting wood box
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1126
View S.S. NANTUCKET capsized, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.917
View Derrick raising S. S. NANTUCKET, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.919
View Wreck of S.S. DUNHOLME, sunk, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.930
View Raising sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1154
View Salvage of tugboat ROBERT WHITE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1162
View Wreckage of S.S. DUNHOLME, sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.945
View China plate recovered from POLLUX wreck, Lawn, 1988
plate
Buffalo China
before 1942
2004.81.200
View Salvage, floating derricks MONARCH and CENTURY raising steamer C. F. BRADY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2590
View Port view of steamer C. F. BRADY of Peekskill being raised
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2597
View Stern view of floating derrick CENTURY and unidentified sunken wreck at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2613
View Hoisting engine from damaged vessel, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3508
View Pumping out capsized vessel HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-02-16
1964.660.2641
View Raising S.S. SAGUA from icy waters, November 15, 1923, in Nicaragua
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-11-15
1964.660.2646
View Floating derrick raising unidentified vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1346
View Salvage of S.S. EGREMONT CASTLE, with floating derrick MONARCH and lighter
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2942
View Salvage of S.S. EGREMONT CASTLE, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2946
View Unidentified salvage scene, steamer I. J. MERRITT beside damaged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4862
View Salvage operation, sunken vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2975
View Salvage, floating derrick MONARCH raising steamer WESTERN UNION
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2980
View Floating derrick, deck view, raising tug TRANSFER NO. 5 of New Haven
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3025
View Pumping out sunken vessel, winter cover on, floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3042
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1492
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising tug JOSEPH H. MORAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3086
View Copy photograph, stern view of steamer PASTIME salvage operation and floating derrick CITIZEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3096
View Floating derricks CONVEYOR and MONARCH raising unidentified wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3134
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derrick raising wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3142
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derrick raising wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3144
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derricks CONVEYOR and MONARCH raising wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3146
View Unidentified salvage operation, twisted metal from wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3147
View Unidentified salvage operation, capsized vessel at dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3155
View Unidentified salvage operation, boat wreckage on deck of floating derrick CITIZEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3177
View Unidentified salvage operation, damaged wharf?
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3178
View Unidentified salvage operation, damaged floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3191
View Salvage operation, floating derrick raising sunken vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3208
View Salvage operation, twisted metal from damaged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3210
View Salvage operation, twisted metal and wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3211
View Page 5, "The Salvage of H. M. Cruiser GLADIATOR", fig. 3. The GLADIATOR after being salvaged, in Portsmouth Dockyard, stern view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3248
View Page 9 from "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR", fig. 9, diagram showing positions of pumping vessels preparatory to pulling the ship into shoal water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3252
View Stern view of S.S. LENAPE, salvage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2315
View Stern view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2316
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2319
View Port view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2324
View Bow view of S.S. LENAPE, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2327
View Floating derricks hoisting debris from unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2341
View Floating derricks MONARCH and CENTURY raising steamer CITY OF STAMFORD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1767
View Floating derricks MONARCH and CENTURY raising CITY OF STAMFORD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1768
View Starboard bow view of sunken submarine S48, salvage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2389
View Raising two-masted vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1499
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1507
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1517
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, starboard bow view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1524
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, reconstructing hull
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1529
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, reconstructing ship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1531
View Salvage of capsized floating grain elevator CERES; floating derricks CENTURY and MONARCH helping
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922
1964.660.2458
View Steamship ANTILLA, of New York, with floating derricks and lighters
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1578
View Salvaging railroad cars
gelatin glass negative
1964.660.1828
View Capsized floating grain elevator CERES; ship WHEELING MOLD in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2466
View Salvage of barge sunk at wharf, probably owned by Stock Yard Company
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1597
View Salvage operation at wharf, floating derrick MONARCH and sunken vessels
gelatin glass negative
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.660.1600
View Salvage of steamship MARY F. SCULLY, sunk at wharf, steamship in drydock in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1615
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, view of interior damage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2505
View Salvage of sunken steamer ELEANOR F. PECK at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1626
View Deck view of S.S. SARATOGA, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1913
View Port view of S.S. SARATOGA, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1918
View Page 17, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR"; figl. 22 bringing the "Gladiator" to Portsmouth, showing Masthead Purchases to "Ranger" and "Enterprise"; see 1964.660.3288-3296.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3289
View Page 16, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR"; fig. 20 ship righting, fig. 21
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3290
View Deck of vessel, lighter RESOLUTE in background, salvage of steamship H.F. DIMOCK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1941
View Unloading steamship H. F. DIMOCK, salvage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1943
View Two floating derricks, one CENTURY, raising unidentified sunken vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1969
View Plans for Canalon System for submarine hoisting
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1975
View Steamer CHELSEA submerged
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1978
View Starbord stern view of pumping out vessel, possibly steamship HUTTONWOOD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2019
View Hoisting railroad cars from Hudson River, south of Grant's Tomb, New York, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3357
View Salvaging of steamship ST. PAUL, June 2, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-02
1964.660.2062
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL ready to be righted, June 16, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-16
1964.660.2075
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2083
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2086
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 11, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-11
1964.660.2112
View Salvage operation, unidentified machinery and debris on deck, pair of wheels and axle
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2137
View Salvage operation, unidentified machinery and debris on deck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2140
View Salvage of S.S. BERMUDEZ of Philadelphia
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2145
View Salvage of S. S. BERMUDEZ of Philadelphia
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2148
View Floating derrick raising WEBER & BURKE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2193
View Machinery on deck, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2253
View Unidentified salvage scene, deck of derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5028
View Salvage of steamboat SARATOGA, sunk in Hudson River, near Tarrytown, October 13, 1906, tugboats
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1906-10-13
1964.660.5044
View Salvage of tugboat S.Q. BROWN, floating derrick MONARCH preparing to raise tugboat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5077
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, view of damaged bow
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1640
View Sunken tug KATHRYN, floating derrick CENTURY in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1688
View Pumping out barge DETROIT, near Philadelphia, PA, November 8, 1916
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916-11-08
1964.660.1720
View 3-Masted schooner HENRY D. MAY swamped off Stone Horse Shoal, Vineyard Sound, MA, October 13, 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-10-13
1964.576.1
View 3-Masted schooner HENRY D. MAY swamped off Stone Horse Shoal, Vineyard Sound, MA, October 13, 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-10-13
1964.576.2
View Derrick MONARCH raising railway tank cars run off end of a car float
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.3.100
View Steamship MAIN, flooded after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.118
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising wreck of barge BOIES PENROSE, Delaware Bay, September 1895
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1895-09
2008.28.3.15
View Yacht VENITZIA sunk off Captains Island, Long Island Sound, July 19, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-19
2008.28.3.179
View Lighter HUSTLER unloading freight from sunk CITY OF NORWALK, Blackwells Island, NY, March 30, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-30
2008.28.1.16
View Man in diving suit, possibly Edward Johnsen, July 20, 1893
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-07-20
2008.28.1.175
View Freight steamer ALERT sunk at Glen Cove Harbor Breakwater, Long Island, NY, May 26, 1892
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-05-26
2008.28.3.3
View Pennsylvania ferry NEW BRUNSWICK burned off Communipaw Coal Pier, NJ, January 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-01
2008.28.3.31
View Lighter HUSTLER and floating derrick MONARCH raising unidentified wreck, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.548
View Steamer CITY OF NORWALK in dry dock, East River, New York, NY, April 3, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-04-03
2008.28.1.31
View Steamer CITY OF NORWALK in dry dock, East River, New York, NY, April 3, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-04-03
2008.28.1.32
View Derrick MONARCH raising Canal boat EUREKA sunk at Pier 42, New York, October 27, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-10-27
1964.521.19
View Derrick MONARCH raising Canal boat EUREKA sunk at Pier 42, New York, October 27, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-10-27
1964.521.20
View Wreck of USS MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1898
2008.28.3.64
View Steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, ; Hudson River, New York, NY, February 11, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02-11
2008.28.3.83
View Mallory Line steamship LEONA sunk at Pier 20, East River, New York, October 19, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-19
2008.28.3.93
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.88
View Photograph album for Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
photograph album
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-1931
1962.1249
View Transferring wreckage from steamship COLUMBIA to PEACOCK
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1962.1249.70
View Floating derrick ADMIRAL and lighter WM. E. CHAPMAN, probably after pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.245
View Floating derricks hoisting debris from unidentified salvage operation
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.93
View Twisted metal pieces on deck of floating derrick, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.726
View Twisted metal pieces on deck of floating derrick, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.727
View Plan by Fernando Staud y Ximenez, "Canalon System for Submarine hoisting, Cap. Staud-Ximenez Naval Engineer"; diagram of steamer?, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.117
View Machinery or wreck debris, including wheel axle, on deck of floating derrick?, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.990
View Floating derrick hoisting twisted metal (vessel sheathing?) from harbor?, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.506
View Twisted metal (vessel sheathing?) hoisted on deck of floating derrick, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.508
View Floating derrick hoisting metal slabs, lighter CASCADE at right, Lehigh Valley Railroad barge in background; probably New York City wharf, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.511
View Derricks MONARCH and RELIANCE carrying dredge FLOOD ROCK, Rikers Island, Bronx, New York, NY, August 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08
2008.28.2.152
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.1
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.3
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.542.2
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.542.7
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.2
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.4
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.5
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.6
View Salvage operation, probably S.S. JUANITA, bringing ashore equipment involved in salvage
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4682
View Salvage operation, probably S.S. JUANITA, stranded vessel
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4683
View Salvage operation, probably S.S. JUANITA, stranded Venezuela, 1/10/1925
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4698
View Salvage operation, stranded S.S. JUANITA, Venezuela, 1/10/1925
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4699
View S. S. ZULIA, stranded, port view
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4703
View Crew and their belongings from the wreck of the Bark WANDERER, 1924
silver print
1924
1997.100.32
View sign
1989.61.3
View Starboard view of steam yacht VEDETTE being raised, next to floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1223
View Floating derricks raising submerged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.504
View Steamship under tow; unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.532
View Scow SISTERS being raised by floating derrick CENTURY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.551
View Barge INDEPENDENT being floated off Riverhead, Long Island, NY
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1899-04-25
1964.660.75
View Ferry PLAINFIELD burned and sunk off Ellis Island, September 14, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.127
View Unidentified sunken sidewheel steamer, fire, fire hoses, tugs
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.133
View Diver and ferry NORTHFIELD after collision in East River, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.149
View Coal Elevator CLARK NO. 2 capsized off Shooter's Island, NY, June 24, 1901
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-24
1964.660.165
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, starboard view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.661
View Outside office; containers
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.227
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising vessel at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.237
View Tug OSCEOLA, stranded, with floating derrick and tug WM. E. CHAPMAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.305
View Floating derrick and sunken steam canal boat S. L. CLARK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.312
View Railroad salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.323
View Pumping out railroad car float #36, Sunken Meadow, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.336
View Salvaging metal from unidentified sunken wreck, possibly DUNHOLME
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1052
View Raising sunken dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-10
1964.660.349
View Raising sunken schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.359
View Raising sunken schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.361
View Pumping coal out of schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.371
View Pumping coal out of schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.372
View Floating derrick raising COLUMBIA from icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.375
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising tug BRILLIANT
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.832
View Unidentified salvage operation near railroad tracks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.834
View Wreck of DUNHOLME (possibly), twisted metal
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1089
View Pontoons used in raising S.S. JOSE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.861
View Hoisting truck out of water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.873
View Raising of S.S. JOSE after fire on Pier 8, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.892
View Sunken steamship, possibly small coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12
1964.660.1116
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising unidentified tugboat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12-11
1964.660.1122
View Floating derricks EDGAR, COLLEGIAN and WILL raising coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1138
View Raising sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1141
View Floating derrick hoisting hull remains of wreck of LOIS V. CHAPPELS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.902
View Derricks CAPITOL and MONARCH raising wreck of tugboat GENESEE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.928
View Wrecked S. S. DUNHOLME, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.933
View Pumping out S.S. DUNHOLME, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.940
View Pumping out sunken GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1157
View Slavage of tugboat ROBERT WHITE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1163
View Raising of tug ELI B. CONINE in icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1179
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising sunken tugboat JERSEY CENTRAL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2865
View Sunken vessel, HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2605
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising barge VIGILANT
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1298
View Steamship ANAHUAC stranded at Bellport, NY, April 7, 1924
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1924-04-07
1964.660.2893
View Pumping out vessel HELL GATE, floating derricks CENTURY and MONARCH helping
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-02-16
1964.660.2642
View Floating derricks COMPTROLLER and CHANCELLOR raising submerged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1345
View Floating derricks COLOSSUS and CENTURY raising derrick CORPORATION
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2933
View Salvage of barge ULAK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3515
View Floating derricks CENTURY and CAPITOL raising tug TRANSFER NO. 5
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1368
View Floating derrick CHIEF hoisting metal from unidentified salvage operation at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1387
View Floating derrick CENTURY pumping out sunken vessel with winter cover on
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3041
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1486
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1488
View Salvage of steamer PASTIME, side view, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3098
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derricks MONARCH and CONVEYOR raising wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3131
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derricks CONVEYOR and MONARCH raising wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3141
View Unidentified salvage operation, boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3174
View Unidentified salvage operation, damaged roof seen from inside
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3194
View Unidentified salvage operation, damaged floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3196
View Salvage operation, floating derrick raising sunken vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3207
View Salvage operation, vessel in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3220
View Salvage operation, wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3224
View Page 6, "The Salvage of H. M. Cruiser GLADIATOR", showing fig. 4, Captain Young, Chief Salvage Officer, Directing final operations
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3249
View Page 10, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR", figs. 10 and 11, cylinder strop; figs. 12-13, shackle for cylinders
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3253
View Page 12, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR", fig. 15, righting the ship, the first 10 degrees
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3255
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2310
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2320
View Port view of S.S. LENAPE, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2330
View Floating derrick raising unidentified sunken vessel (barge)?
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1745
View Floating derrick raising unidentified sunken vessel (barge?)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1747
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1506
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1515
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, port bow view, in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1518
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1519
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1520
View Salvage and reconstruction of S.S. DUNHOLME
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1527
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, reconstructing ship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1532
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, starboard bow view
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1536
View Raising steamship SAGUA, stern view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1782
View Bow view of derelict vessel, floating derricks GROTON and ROSLYN in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1791
View Salvage of capsized floating grain elevator CERES, floating derricks MONARCH and CAPITOL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922
1964.660.2455
View Salvage of capsized floating grain elevator CERES, floating derricks CENTURY and MONARCH helping
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922
1964.660.2459
View Steamship ANTILLA of New York and lighters
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1579
View Wreck of barge EL PASO being raised by floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.660.1582
View Unidentified vessel being raised, lighters RESOLUTE, HENRY SEYMOUR, floating derrick COMMODORE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1842
View Raising unidentified vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1847
View Capsized floating grain elevator CERES, ship WHEELING MOLD in bachground
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2467
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, damaged vessel with salvage vessels
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2496
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, damaged vessel with lighter CHAPMAN BROS.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2504
View Stern view, salvage of steamer MARY E. GORDON at pier
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1593
View Salvage of barge at wharf, probably owned by Stock Yard Company
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1598
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, vessel in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2507
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, vessel in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2508
View Hoisting material, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1901
View Chains and piers, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1903
View Unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1905
View Floating derrick raising steamer ISLANDER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1924
View Floating derrick raising steamer ISLANDER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1925
View Page 18, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR", fig. 23 The Cofferdam, and fig. 24 showing portion of starboard side enclosed and portion not enclosed by cofferdams
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3288
View Deck of steamship H.F. DIMOCK, salvage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1942
View Steamship MINNESOTA being towed, salvage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1946
View Plans for Canalon System of Deep Sea Salvage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1974
View Steamer CHELSEA submerged
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1977
View Stern view of steamship HUTTONWOOD salvage operation, with lighters SAXON, FRED and RESOLUTE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2007
View Pumping out vessel, possibly steamship HUTTONWOOD, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2012
View Port view of vessel, possibly steamship HUTTONWOOD, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2017
View Unidentified salvage(?) operation, October 14, 1925
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-10-14
1964.660.3365
View Salvage of steamship E. P. MORSE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2029
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL, floating derrick COMMODORE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2057
View Machinery for righting capsized steamship ST. PAUL, July 22, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-07-22
1964.660.2081
View Apparatus for righting capsized steamship ST. PAUL, June 26, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-26
1964.660.2082
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2095
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2100
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2108
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 11, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-11
1964.660.2111
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 11, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-11
1964.660.2113
View Floating derrick raising sunken vessel in icy waters, salvage, possibly tug COLUMBIA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3480
View Salvage operation, floating derrick COLOSSUS removing funnel from steamship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2265
View Salvage of S.S. MAIN and S.S. BREMEN after pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.5071
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, view of deck awash
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1643
View Pumping out barge DETROIT near Philadelphia, PA, 1916
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916
1964.660.1717
View Raising barge DETROIT, near Philadelphia, PA, 1916, two floating derricks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1718
View Raising barge DETROIT, near Philadelphia, PA, 1916 with two floating devices
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916
1964.660.1719
View Schooner yacht VALKYRIE ashore near Stepping Stones Light (NY) February 20, 1893
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-02-20
2008.28.3.1
View Derrick MONARCH raising a barge, circa 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.3.101
View Cracked hull of steamship GATE CITY stranded near Moriches, Long Island, NY, February 8, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-8
2008.28.3.106
View Steamship BREMEN on fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06
2008.28.3.110
View Steamship BREMEN at Hoboken, NJ, pier fire, June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06
2008.28.3.112
View Salvage of steamships MAIN and BREMEN after pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.121
View Derrick RELIANCE raising railroad car from Hudson River near Newburgh, NY, September 6, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-06
2008.28.1.112
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, L.I. March 27, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-27
2008.28.3.151
View Steamship OLD DOMINION stranded on rocks off Milton Point, NY, July 6, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-06
2008.28.3.176
View Derrick MONARCH recovering railroad cars lost overboard, Newark Bay, NJ, April 16, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-04-16
1964.521.13
View CITY OF NORWALK after collision with NYNH & HRR car float, Blackwells Island (Welfare Island, NY)
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.3.2
View Ferry HACKENSACK stranded on Rocks at Sunken Meadows, February 12, 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1897-02-12
2008.28.3.33
View Steamboat CATSKILL after sinking in Hudson River, September 15, 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1897-09
2008.28.3.38
View Salvage vessels around wreck of USS MAINE, Havana, Cuba, February 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-02
2008.28.3.58
View Wreck of USS MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1898
2008.28.3.61
View Wreck of USS MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co
1898
2008.28.3.70
View Pumps at work on Steamship GERMANIC, Hudson River, New York, February 11, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02-11
2008.28.3.85
View Yacht WANDA sunk on Crane's Dry Dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, October 25, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-25
2008.28.3.91
View Unloading stranded tanker TAMIAHUA ashore at Pigeon Point, California, 1930
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1930
1962.1249.32
View Demonstration of submersible electrically-driven salvage pumps used by Merritt & Chapman Co., circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1041
View PROMISED LAND? aground off shore
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.545.2
View Men standing on deck of damaged vessel, possibly steamer PROMISED LAND
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.545.4
View Tugboat alongside 3-masted schooner in Cape Cod Canal, MA, circa 1916
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
circa 1916
1964.551.1
View Fishing steamer JAMES N. GIFFORD of Stonington, CT, sunk at Oneco Works wharf, New London, CT, circa March 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1912-03
1964.558
View 3-Masted schooner BEAVER aground at Vineyard Haven, MA, June 17, 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1912-06-17
1964.562
View Machinery or wreck debris on deck of floating derrick?, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.995
View Unidentified salvage operation, circa 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1894
2008.28.2.76
View Diver Swanson inspecting hull of steamer SANKATY, February 22, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-22
1964.585.6
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.7
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.3
View nitrate negative
Welt, Jess
1917
1980.140.5
View Salvage operation, probably S. S. JUANITA, stranded Venezuela, 1/10/1925, pumping out, foot bridge out tro vessel
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4688
View Salvage operation, probably S.S. JUANITA, stranded, Venezuela, 1/10/1925, foot bridge out to vessel
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4692
View Salvage of S.S. ZULIA, stranded, stern view
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4701
View S. S. ZULIA, stranded, starboard view
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4706
View Stranded S. S. ZULIA, starboard view
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4711
View Unidentified salvage operation; stranded steam ship, "T" on stack
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5061
View Unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5048
View Unidentified salvage operation, derrick hoisting machinery
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5049
View albumen print
October 10, 1899
1990.9.35
View silver print
1938
1987.58.2048
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising tug EDWARD J. BERWIND
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.995
View Floating derrick raising tug THOMAS F. O'BRIEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1023
View Floating derrick raising unidentified vessel at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1211
View Raising of sunken tug OWASCO
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1905-02-16
1964.660.511
View Salvage operation at unidentified wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.514
View Marine salvage diver in diving suit
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.10
View Salvaging small boat wreck from wharf fire
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.547
View Floating derrick MONARCH and steamship GEO. W. CLYDE
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1896-02-29
1964.660.66
View Unloading unidentified vessel from steamship
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.78
View Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-02
1964.660.580
View S. S. BREMEN on Weehawken Banks after fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.106
View Salvage operation with tug JASON and floating derrick ADMIRAL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.126
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising B&O lighter POTOMAC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-04-26
1964.660.619
View Derrick raising tug McCALDIN BROS. after sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-02
1964.660.624
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-02
1964.660.628
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, port view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.651
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, bow view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.657
View Steamer TALISMAN sunk in East River, NY, January 23, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-01-23
1964.660.135
View Raising of ferry boat NORTHFIELD, East River, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.151
View Raising scaffolding
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-24
1964.660.162
View Sidewheel steamship OLD DOMINION aground
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.166
View Salvage of railroad "float" ashore; derrick behind
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.174
View Lifting steel beams; unidentified construction operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.203
View Three marine divers in diving suits onboard MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.224
View Floating derricks (MONARCH is one) and tug GEORGE L. GARLICK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.234
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising vessel at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.239
View Starboard view of S.S. FRI and steamer RESCUE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902
1964.660.270
View Hoisting rifle from floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-04
1964.660.294
View Stranded tug OSCEOLA on breakwater, floating derrick, and tug WM. R. CHAPMAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.306
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising dredge BALTIC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.326
View Raising dredge BALTIC sunk in Delaware River
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.328
View Unidentified salvage operation in icy waters
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.807
View Raising sunken dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-10
1964.660.351
View Floating derrick working over submerged wreck in icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.353
View Schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER raised after being sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.369
View Pumping out schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.373
View Floating derrick raising tug COLUMBIA from icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.374
View Raising steamship JOSE sunk off pier 8, East River
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.833
View Steamer MOHAWK, port view, ashore, floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1082
View Wreck of DUNHOLME (possibly), twisted metal on deck of derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1088
View Floating derrick raising tug NEW YORK CENTRAL NO. 22 on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-02-05
1964.660.390
View Derrick raising tug NEW YORK CENTRAL NO,. 22 on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-02-05
1964.660.392
View Floating derrick CENTURY salvaging railroad float
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.402
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising barge RAGUSA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.406
View S. S. BRIGHTON ashore, Atlantic City, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-03-31
1964.660.410
View Raising of S.S. JOSE after fire at Pier 8, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.893
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising unidentified tugboat, sidewheel steamer in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12-11
1964.660.1121
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising small steamer
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1123
View Salvage of sunken vessel GRECIAN, hoisting wood box
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1125
View Sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN and derrick, ice-covered
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1140
View Hoisting rifle from deck of battleship INDIANA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-04-29
1964.660.437
View Battleship INDIANA, bow view, floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-04-29
1964.660.443
View Pumping out sidewheel steamer PERSEUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.906
View Floating derricks CENTURY and MONARCH raising sidewheel steamer PERSEUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.907
View Wrecked S.S. DUNHOLME, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.934
View S. S. DUNHOLME and derrick ATLAS, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.937
View Pumping out DUNHOLME, sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.938
View Raising sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1150
View Raising sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1155
View Wreckage of S.S. DUNHOLME, sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey, with derrick WILL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.943
View Floating derrick raising sunken steamer CIMBRIA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.948
View Sunken steamer CIMBRIA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.950
View Merritt, Chapman & Scott salvaging steamer CITY OF NORWICH
gelatin print
1963.1594
View Starboard view, wrecked steamboat IVANHOE in dry dock, floating derrick MONARCH in back
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2875
View Floating derrick CONSUL, pipe laying operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1301
View Floating derricks raising capsized vessel HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2638
View Raising of S.S. SAGUA, November 15, 1923, Nicaragua
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-11-15
1964.660.2654
View Salvage of S.S. EGREMONT CASTLE, port view, with floating derricks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2943
View Salvage operation, sunken vessel with floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2976
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising tug TRANSFER NO. 5 of New Haven
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3026
View Salvage operation, interior of vessel?, copy photograph
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4925
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1489
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1491
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1493
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derricks CONVEYOR and MONARCH raising wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3143
View Unidentified salvage operation, boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3175
View Unidentified salvage operation, damaged wharf area
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3195
View Unidentified salvage operation, sunken and damaged vessels at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3198
View Salvage operation, view of side of damaged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3209
View Salvage operation, wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3212
View Salvage operation, wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3221
View Salvage operation, vessel in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3223
View Page 7, The Salvage of H. M. Cruiser GLADIATOR, showing fig. 5, position of vessel after being dismantled; fig. 6, the capstan erected on the beach to assist in heaving the wreck inshore; fig. 7, shore purchases for hauling in cruiser towards shore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3250
View Page 13, "The Slavage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR", figs. 16-17, diagram showing method of righting the cruiser
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3256
View glass negative
1899
1982.8.113
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2318
View Floating derricks CENTURY and COLOSSUS hoisting debris from unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2339
View Capsized railroad barge No. 4
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1750
View Capsized railroad barge No. 4
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1751
View Floating derricks MONARCH and CENTURY raising steamer CITY OF STAMFORD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1769
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1504
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1508
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, stern view in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1512
View Salvage and reconstruction of hull of S.S. DUNHOLME
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1528
View Salvage of capsized floating grain elevator CERES, floating derrick hoisting
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922
1964.660.2454
View Unloading unidentified vessel, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1841
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, view of damaged port side
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2492
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, hoisting twisted metal from damaged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2494
View Salvage of barge, probably owned by Stock Yard Company
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1599
View Floating derrick raising unidentified wrecked vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1872
View Salvage of tugboat EDWIN TERRY by floating derrick CENTURY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1888
View Unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1895
View Hoisting container, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1897
View Container on deck, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1900
View Towing object through water, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1902
View Port stern view of S.S. SARATOGA, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1911
View Pumping out S.S. SARATOGA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1914
View Two floating derricks, one CENTURY, raising unidentified sunken vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1970
View Pumping out vessel, possibly HUTONWOOD, steamship, port view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2013
View Starboard view of pumping out vessel, possibly steamship HUTTONWOOD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2020
View Lighter CHAMPION at salvage of steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1918-04-26
1964.660.2038
View Barge No. 50 of Seaboard Sand & Gravel Corp., diver, hoisting machinery out of water
gelatin glass negative
Seaboard Sand & Gravel Corp.
1964.660.3384
View Barge No. 50, hoisting machinery out of water
gelatin glass negative
Seaboard Sand & Gravel Corp.
1964.660.3385
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL, June 26, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-26
1964.660.2084
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2085
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, August 27, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-08-27
1964.660.2103
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, August 27, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-08-27
1964.660.2104
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 11, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-11
1964.660.2106
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2109
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 11, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-11
1964.660.2116
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 12, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-12
1964.660.2118
View Floating derrick with pipe laying apparatus
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2126
View Floating derricks raising WEBER & BURKE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2196
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5015
View Unidentified salvage operation, possibly in Baltimore, Maryland
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5016
View Salvage of S.S. BREMEN after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.5068
View Salvage of steamer LIBERTY ROUTE, being raised by floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5074
View Salvage of tugboat S.Q. BROWN being raised by floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5075
View Salvage of tugboat S.Q. BROWN, floating derrick MONARCH preparing to raise it
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5078
View Salvage of S.S. McPHERSON stranded at Matanzas, Cuba, February 5, 1901, port view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-02-05
1964.660.5081
View Steamship AGNES listing, salvage operation, copy photograph
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5082
View Steamer KEYPORT, bow view, sunk at the Battery, New York, with floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1669
View View of port side of tug GOV. FLOWER of Perth Amboy
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1687
View Sunken tugboat WM. J.M. CALDIN with S.S. DORA and floating derrick COMPTROLLER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1733
View Steam Yacht AZTEC being raised off Halletts Point, Hell Gate, NY, July 1, 1894
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07-01
2008.28.3.10
View American steamship GATE CITY stranded, Moriches, Long Island, NY, circa February 8, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-8
2008.28.3.107
View Ship GENERAL KNOX on fire at Pier 19, East River, NY, August 1894
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-08
2008.28.3.12
View Salvage of steamship BREMEN after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.127
View Steamer CEPHEUS raised, after sinking off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.100
View Schooner CRICKET and lighter HUSTLER, North River, NY, January 13, 1893
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-01-13
2008.28.1.131
View Tugboat UNITY towing steamer POUGHKEEPSIE, Hudson River, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-21
2008.28.3.148
View Diver and ferry NORTHFIELD after collision in East River, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.3.166
View Coal Elevator CLARK NO. 2 capsized off Shooter's Island, NY, June 24, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-24
2008.28.3.178
View Yacht VENITZIA sunk off Captains Island, Long Island Sound, July 19, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-19
2008.28.3.180
View Diver on deck of derrick RELIANCE after uncoupling sunk railroad cars, Queens, NY, circa 1895
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1895
2008.28.1.15
View Floating derrick MONARCH and lighter HUSTLER working over unidentified wreck; floating CENTURY in distance, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.547
View Unidentified raised wrecked vessel, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.553
View Derrick CENTURY hoisting railroad cars from sunken float, Oak Point, NY, December 22, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-12-22
1964.521.24
View Steamer PLYMOUTH aground off Newport, RI, June, 1894
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1894-06
2008.28.3.7
View Tugboat JAMES D. NICHOL foundered off Sea Bright, NY, June 24, 1894
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1894-06-24
2008.28.3.9
View Lifting and pumping steamship LEONA, East River, New York, October 19, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-19
2008.28.3.92
View Steam lighter HUSTLER alongside steamer CEPHEUS, sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.95
View Hole in ferry CHICAGO after collision with steamship AUGUSTA, October 31, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-31
2008.28.3.99
View albumen print
Circa 1890
1996.49.34
View albumen print
Circa 1890
1996.49.36
View Salvage workers on dock with equipment, Bethlehem Shipbuilding dock, San Pedro, California, July 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-07
1962.1249.41
View Steam lighter LEVIATHAN of Boston, stranded on bank of Cape Cod Canal near Bourne Bridge, MA, September 6, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-09-06
1964.592.1
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising wooden hull with remains of deckhouse, off end of pier, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.152
View Tugboat JASON and floating derrick ADMIRAL, probably after pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.246
View Wreck and fire, sunk sidewheel steamer with tugboats and fireboat, probably Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, January 9, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-01-09
2008.28.4.264
View Steamer ST. DUNSTAN on fire and sunk, tugboats alongside, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, January 9, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-01-09
2008.28.4.265
View Floating derricks or lighters in Cape Cod Canal, MA, circa 1916
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
circa 1916
1964.551.3
View Steamship towed in Cape Cod Canal, MA, circa 1916
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
circa 1916
1964.551.4
View 4-Masted schooner FOREST CITY of Savannah sunk near Vineyard Haven, MA, April 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-04
1964.569.3
View Derricks MONARCH and RELIANCE carrying dredge FLOOD ROCK to Rikers Island, Bronx, New York, NY, August 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08
2008.28.2.151
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.542.5
View Steamship ONTARIO in Thames River, New London, CT, after fire off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.8
View Salvage of S.S. ZULIA, port view, stranded
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4702
View nitrate negative
1983.22.109
View albumen print
October 10, 1899
1990.9.33
View "Wreckers at work on the sunken steamer IBERIA"
clipping
Davidson, J. O.
December 08, 1888
1982.117.2
View Salvaging Supplies from wreck of Bark WANDERER, Cuttyhunk Island, 1924
silver pring
1924
1997.100.29
View copy photograph
Beattie, Robert
After 1912
1994.53.342
View Raising tug EDWARD J. BERWIND
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.997
View Raising tug HENRY A. PECK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1018
View Floating derricks raising vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1026
View Derrick raising vessel (...SULLIVAN)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1027
View Floating derricks aiding in raising submerged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.501
View Floating derrick, lighter and others raising submerged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.503
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising railroad car No. 11
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.512
View Raising of scow SISTERS; floating derrick CENTURY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.549
View New York; tug HUSTLER and other vessels aiding unidentified steamship
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.61
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising wreck of barge BOIES PENROSE, Delaware Bay, September 1895
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1895-09
1964.660.64
View Floating derrick RELIANCE and tug GEORGE L. GARLICK at dock
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.71
View Lighter HENRY SEYMOUR working over unidentified capsized steamship
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.80
View Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-02
1964.660.581
View Pumping out B&O lighter POTOMAC sunk at St. George, Staten Island
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-04-26
1964.660.608
View Tug McCALDIN BROS. being raised by derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-02
1964.660.609
View S. S. BREMEN after fire off Weehawken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.118
View Two lighters; marine diver entering water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.125
View Pumping out of burned hulk; Hoboken, NJ pier fire
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.129
View Unidentified salvage operation in harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.137
View Steamer POUGHKEEPSIE ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-03
1964.660.145
View Raising ferry boat NORTHFIELD, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.148
View Raising of ferry boat NORTHFIELD, East River, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.150
View Floating derrick RELIANCE hoisting railroad car from float ashore
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.175
View Barge LICHTENFELS BROS sunk on Flynn's Knoll, NY Harbor, February 22, 1902
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-02-22
1964.660.204
View Floating derrick CENTURY and unidentified wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.233
View Sinking tug TRANSFER NO. 3, port view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.253
View Railroad car float #36 on rocks at Sunken Meadow, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.340
View Floating derrick raising unidentified vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1048
View Dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2 sunk off 42nd Street, Brooklyn, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-10
1964.660.344
View Spars in icy waters over unidentified submerged wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.354
View Schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER being raised
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.368
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising tug COLUMBIA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.376
View Wreck of DUNHOLME (possibly), twisted metal on deck of floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1087
View Sunken tug A. W. SMITH and floating derrick CENTURY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1097
View Floating derrick CHANCELLOR raising Mutual Milk & Cream Co. truck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1102
View Mutual Milk & Cream Co. truck on deck of floating derrick CHANCELLOR, raising carriage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1104
View Floating derrick raising tug NEW YORK CENTRAL NO. 22 on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-02-05
1964.660.394
View S. S. BRIGHTON, bow view, ashore, Atlantic City, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-03-31
1964.660.411
View S. S. BRIGHTON, starboard view, ashore at Atlantic City, NJ
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-03-31
1964.660.416
View Sunken steamship, possibly small coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1107
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising unidentified tugboat, sidewheel steamer in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12-11
1964.660.1120
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising McALLISTER BROS. (barge?)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1133
View Raising sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1145
View Hoisting rifle from deck of battleship INDIANA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-04-29
1964.660.436
View Hoisting rifle from deck of battleship INDIANA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-04-29
1964.660.439
View Pontoons raising sunken vessel, possibly S.S. JOSE, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.913
View Floating derricks CAPITOL and COLLEGIAN pumping out sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1148
View Wreckage of S.S. DUNHOLME, sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.942
View Starboard bow view of damaged bow of steamer CIMBRIA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.949
View Floating derrick CAPITOL raising tug ELI B. CONINE, in icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1178
View Raising tug ELI B. CONINE in icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1180
View Floating derrick preparing to raise capsized vessel in icy waters at pier
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1181
View Twelve salvage scenes
gelatin negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5089
View Floating derricks MONARCH and CENTURY raising steamer C. F. BRADY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2592
View Steamship ANAHUAC stranded at Bellport, NY, April 7, 1924
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1924-04-07
1964.660.2894
View Steamship ANAHUAC stranded at Bellport, NY, April 7, 1924
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1924-04-07
1964.660.2898
View Steamship ANAHUAC stranded at Bellport, NY, April 7, 1924
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1924-04-07
1964.660.2899
View Floating derricks, unidentified salvage operation in New York harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-02-16
1964.660.2647
View Derrick raising piece of metal out of water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1344
View Floating derrick COLOSSUS and CENTURY raising derrick CORPORATION
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2932
View Salvage of S.S. EGREMONT CASTLE, port view, and derrick CONVOY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2938
View Salvage of S.S. EGREMONT CASTLE, deck view, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2941
View Salvage of S.S. EGREMONT CASTLE, stern view, with derricks and lighters
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2944
View Salvage of S.S. EGREMONT CASTLE, pumping out, with lighter CASCADE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2945
View Unidentified salvage scene, copy photo, deck of vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4863
View Unidentified salvage scene, warship alist, lighter beside it; copy photograph
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4864
View Floating derricks CAPITOL and CENTURY raising tug TRANSFER NO. 5, New Haven
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1369
View Floating derrick hoisting material from unidentified salvage operation at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1386
View Salvage operation, sunken vessel, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2977
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising submerged tug TRANSFER NO. 5 of New Haven
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3024
View Salvage of tug TRANSFER NO. 5 of New Haven
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3027
View Salvage of tug TRANSFER NO. 5 of New Haven, stern view, floating derrick MONARCH, stern view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3028
View Salvage of tug TRANSFER NO. 5 of New Haven, tug in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3029
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derrick hoisting boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3172
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derrick raising boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3187
View Unidentified salvage operation, wharf wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3193
View Salvage operation, floating derrick raising wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3206
View Page from "The Salvage of H. M. Cruiser "Gladiator"; see 1964.660.3244-3258
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1908-10-09
1964.660.3245
View Page 8 of "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR" showing fig. 8, one of the lifting cylinders
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3251
View Floating derrick CENTURY hoisting cannon
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3268
View Salvage, floating derrick MONARCH raising steamer WESTERN UNION
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2981
View Starboard stern view of S.S. LENAPE, salvage, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2308
View Stern view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2317
View View from above of S.S, TANAMO, fire and salvage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2369
View Starboard stern view of S.S. TANAMO, fire and salvage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2374
View Salvage of sunken submarine S48, derrick and lighter COMMISSIONER assisting
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2392
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1510
View Salvage and reconstruction of S.S. DUNHOLME
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1535
View Salvage of capsized floating grain elevator CERES, floating derricks MONARCH and CAPITOL helping
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922
1964.660.2457
View Salvage of steamship ANTILLA, of New York, aground in harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1574
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, damaged vessel with derrick CONTINENTAL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2501
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE; damaged vessel with salvage vessels, tug ARAL, derrick CONTINENTAL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2503
View Salvage of steamer MARY E. GORDON at dock, floating derrick CENTURY at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1595
View Floating derrick raising unidentified vessel, barge K.W. McNEIL in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1873
View Salvage of sunken steamer ELEANOR F. PECK at wharf, floating derrick EDGAR
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1624
View Raising Burns Bros. barge; floating derrick CENTURY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1627
View Salvage, steamship MINNESOTA being towed
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1945
View Steamer CHELSEA submerged
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1976
View Pumping out vessel, probably steamship HUTTONWOOD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2011
View Starboard view of pumping out vessel, possibly steamship HUTTONWOOD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2018
View Raising of steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-04-26
1964.660.2046
View Floating derricks CHIEF and 2 others salvaging steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2065
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL ready to be righted, June 16, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-16
1964.660.2074
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL ready to be righted, June 16, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-16
1964.660.2076
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL, July 14, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-07-14
1964.660.2078
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2088
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 12, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-12
1964.660.2121
View Salvage operation, photographs from book(?), one picture shows pumping out, other shows hoisting machinery
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3485
View Submersible electrically-driven salvage pumps in operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2180
View Drawing for Ricuperatore Subacqueo PINO
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2231
View Salvage operation, floating derrick COLOSSUS removing funnel from steamship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2263
View Plans for salvage tug COMMISSIONER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4347
View Salvage of S.S. BREMEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.5064
View Salvage of steamer LIBERTY ROUTE being raised by floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5073
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, view of deck, sunken
gelatin glass negative
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works
1964.660.1639
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, view of deck awash, lighter HENRY SEYMOUR at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1642
View Salvage of steamship LANSING
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1648
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1649
View Steamer KEYPORT, bow view, sunk at the Battery, New York, floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1668
View View of bottom of tug GOV. FLOWER of Perth Amboy, on its side
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1685
View Raising barge DETROIT, near Philadelphia, PA, 1916, floating derrick COMPTROLLER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916
1964.660.1711
View Raising tugboat WM. J.M. CALDIN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1736
View 3-Masted schooner HENRY D. MAY in Vineyard Haven after sinking in Vineyard Sound, MA, October 13, 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-10-13
1964.576.4
View Bark EMMA T. CROWELL after fire off Fire Island, New York, July 19, 1894
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07-19
2008.28.3.11
View Salvage of steamships. MAIN and BREMEN after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.125
View Steamship BREMEN, awash and listing, after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.126
View Steamship ST. PAUL ashore Long Branch, NJ, January 25 - Febryary 3, 1896
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1896-01-25 thru 1896-02-03
2008.28.3.13
View Steamer ST. DUNSTAN afire and sunk at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, January 9, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-01-09
2008.28.3.137
View Derrick RELIANCE raising railroad car from Hudson River near Newburgh, NY, September 6, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-06
2008.28.1.102
View Steamer CEPHEUS raised, after sinking off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.103
View Steamboat CONTINENTAL ashore at Wards Island, New York, April 15, 1895
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1895-05-15
2008.28.3.17
View Ship COM. T.H. ALLEN on fire off Sandy Hook, NJ, July 18, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-18
2008.28.3.181
View Schooner HANNAH F. CARLETON sunk on Flynn's Knoll, New York Harbor, September 30, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-09-30
2008.28.3.188
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising dredge PACIFIC, Delaware Bay, January 5, 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1897-01-05
2008.28.3.30
View Wrecking Steamer RIGHT ARM, circa 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
2008.28.3.80
View Pumps at work on Steamship GERMANIC, Hudson River, New York, February 11, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02-11
2008.28.3.87
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.89
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.90
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.94
View Brooklyn Navy Yard, after collision of ferry CHICAGO and steamship AUGUSTA, October 31, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-31
2008.28.3.98
View albumen print
Circa 1890
1996.49.33
View Men on deck of vessel, one wearing diving suit, circa 1890
albumen print
Circa 1890
1996.49.38
View Lighter HUSTLER and derrick RELIANCE raising steamer CEPHEUS, sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.99
View Men examining large pipes on board vessel, possibly Honolulu, Hawaii, April 29, 1927
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1927-04-29
1962.1249.101
View Salvage tugboat sunk at Bethlehem Shipbuilding dock, San Pedro, California, July 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-07
1962.1249.37
View Salvage tugboat sunk at Bethlehem Shipbuilding dock, San Pedro, California, July 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-07
1962.1249.38
View Salvage tugboat sunk at Bethlehem Shipbuilding dock, San Pedro, California, July 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-07
1962.1249.39
View Salvage tugboat sunk at Bethlehem Shipbuilding dock, San Pedro, California, July 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-07
1962.1249.42
View Floating derrick LOS ANGELES hoisting cargo from another vessel, circa 1930
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1930
1962.1249.91
View Floating derricks and unidentified salvage operation, probably Hudson River, New York, NY, circa 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1896
2008.28.4.137
View Floating derricks CENTURY and COLOSSUS hoisting debris from unidentified salvage operation
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.88
View Floating derricks CENTURY and COLOSSUS hoisting debris from unidentified salvage operation
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.90
View Floating derricks hoisting debris from unidentified salvage operation, tugboat NEWARK at left
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.92
View Twisted metal pieces on deck of floating derrick, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.725
View Photograph album, scenes from 1934 Paramount motion picture "No More Women"
photograph album
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1934
1964.516
View Salvage vessels alongside stranded vessel PROMISED LAND?
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.545.1
View Man standing on deck of damaged vessel, possibly steamer PROMISED LAND
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.545.3
View Unidentified machinery, perhaps salvaged from wreck, July 16, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-07-16
2008.28.8.1103
View Diagram of canalon system for raising steamship from the sea bottom, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.118
View 4-Masted schooner FOREST CITY of Savannah sunk near Vineyard Haven, MA, April 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-04
1964.569.2
View List of work performed by J.R. Jenkins, dated March 14, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-03-14
2008.28.5.143
View Salvage vessel PROMISED LAND, alongside steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, off Montauk Long Island, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.3
View Tugboats TASCO and MERCURY rafted together at dock, possibly New London, CT, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.6
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, close-up view after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.4
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.542.1
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.1
View Salvage operation, probably S.S. JUANITA, stranded
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4684
View Salvage operation, possibly S.S. JUANITA, stranded at Venezuela, 1/10/1925, double exposure
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4695
View Stranded S.S. ZULIA, starboard view
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4709
View albumen print
October 10, 1899
1990.9.32
View Men and equipment on a derrick barge
black-and-white photograph
2002.94.379
View Men and equipment on a derrick barge
black-and-white photograph
2002.94.380
View Salvaging goods from wreck of bark WANDERER, Cuttyhunk Island, August 26, 1924
silver print
1924-08-26
1997.100.26
View Breeches Buoy rigged to Salvage Items from Bark WANDERER, Cuttyhunk Island, 1924
silver print
1924-08-26
1997.100.28
View photograph
1978.142.412
View silver print
Hansen, Arthur
Circa 1945
1995.118.233
View Raising tug EDWARD J. BERWIND
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.996
View Raising tug EDWARD J. BERWIND
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.998
View Floating derrick raising railroad car
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1008
View Floating derricks raising unidentified vessel at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1212
View Sunken steamboat TREMONT; floating derrick MONARCH, 1904
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1904-02-08
1964.660.494
View Unidentified wharf scene; salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.515
View Steamer aground; unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.530
View Floating derrick RELIANCE working over wreck of railroad barge
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.65
View Lifting and pumping out S. S. LEONA, East River, NY
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1899-10-19
1964.660.81
View Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-02
1964.660.579
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising B&0 lighter POTOMAC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-04-26
1964.660.607
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising B&O lighter POTOMAC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-04-26
1964.660.620
View Tug McCALDIN BROS. being raised by derrick after sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-02
1964.660.621
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, bow view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.655
View Raising of burned hulk; probably Hoboken, NJ pier fire
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-09-14
1964.660.128
View Steamer POUGHKEEPSIE ashore at Stony Point, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-03-21
1964.660.140
View Steamer POUGHKEEPSIE run ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-03
1964.660.141
View Pumping out ferry boat NORTHFIELD, East River, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.152
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, starboard view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.658
View On board floating derrick; unidentified construction operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.201
View On board floating derrick, lifting steel beams
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.202
View Outside office; containers
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.226
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising vessel at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.238
View Bow view S. S. FRI and steamer RESCUE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902
1964.660.268
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising tug BRILLIANT
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.797
View Bow of damaged tug UTICA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.818
View Salvaging metal from unidentnfied sunken wreck, possibly DUNHOLME
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1054
View Icy waters around submerged wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.355
View Raising sunken schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.360
View Floating derricks raising sunken schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.364
View Unidentified salvage operation, pier, railroad tracks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.837
View Wreck of DUNHOLME (possibly), floating derrick COMPTROLLER hoisting metal
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1083
View Floating derrick COMMISSIONER raising sunken truck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1093
View Sunken tug A. W. SMITH, starboard view, floating derrick CENTURY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1096
View Floating derrick CHANCELLOR hoisting drowned horse
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1105
View Floating derricks COMMISSIONER, EDGAR and COLLEGIAN, sunken steamship, possibly GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12
1964.660.1115
View Salvage of sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN, floating derricks EDGAR and COLLEGIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1130
View Hoisting rifle from deck of battleship INDIANA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-04-29
1964.660.438
View Derrick MONARCH hoisting rifle from deck of battleship INDIANA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-04-29
1964.660.441
View Pumping out sidewheel steamer PERSEUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.909
View Derrick COMMISSIONER raising S.S. NANTUCKET, September 2, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.920
View Floating derrick EDGAR and one other derrick pumping out sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1152
View Raising sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1156
View Pumping out sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1158
View Wrecked DUNHOLME, bow view, sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.946
View U. S. N. fork recovered from POLLUX wreck, Lawn, 1988
fork
before 1942
2004.81.202
View T. A. Scott Company plant at New London, Connecticut
lithograph
After 1872
1996.58.3
View Damaged pipe on deck of floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2870
View Sunken vessel, HELL GATE, with tug C.P. RAYMOND
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922-12
1964.660.2610
View Steamship ANAHUAC stranded at Bellport, NY, April 7, 1924
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1924-04-07
1964.660.2895
View Raising capsized vessel HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2640
View Unidentified vessel being raised
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1343
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, view of deck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1354
View Two copy photographs, salvage operation, one a sunken vessel, the other, deck of vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3526
View Derricks CAPITOL and CENTURY raising tug TRANSFER NO. 5, New Haven
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1366
View Salvage operation, pumping out vessel, floating derrick COMMODORE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2978
View Salvage of steamer WESTERN UNION, floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2979
View Salvage of tug TRANSFER NO. 5 of New Haven; bow view of tug in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3031
View Salvage of sunken vessel with winter cover on, people on dock watching, icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3039
View Salvage operation, hull of vessel in dry dock, "Midship Starboard", #8392, copy photograph
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4926
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1490
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising tug JOSEPH H. MORAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3085
View Salvage of steamer PASTIME, side view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3099
View Salvage of steamer PASTIME, side view, showing damage to hull
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3100
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1495
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derricks raising unidentified wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3130
View Unidentified salvage operation, derrick hoisting boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3169
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derrick ready to hoist boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3171
View Unidentified salvage operation, boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3186
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derrick CENTURY raising anchor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3200
View Salvage operation, wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3213
View Page 14, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR", fig. 18, commencing pumping operations for righting the ship preparatory to towing her to Portsmouth
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3257
View Floating derrick hoisting diner
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3266
View glass negative
August 25, 1899
1982.8.100
View Side view of S.S. LENAPE, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2332
View View of deck of unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2336
View Floating derricks hoisting debris at unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2343
View Floating derricks MONARCH and CENTURY raising steamer CITY OF STAMFORD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1770
View Sunken lighter RUDOLPH BROTHERS, bow view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1777
View Damaged pipe on derrick deck, with measuring stick, probably part of pipe installation job
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2418
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1503
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1509
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1514
View Magnetic hoist in operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1797
View Floating derrick CAPITOL, unidentified salvage or repair operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2440
View Wharf activity, barge EASTMAN alist
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1565
View Raising vessel, lighters HENRY SEYMOUR and RESOLUTE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1845
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, view of damaged port side, floating derrick at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2493
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, damaged vessel with salvage vessels
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2495
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, damaged vessel with salvage vessels, tug ARAL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2497
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, damaged vessel with salvage vessels, lighter CHAPMAN BROS.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2499
View Port view, salvage of steamer MARY E. GORDON at pier, floating derrick CENTURY astern
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1592
View Salvage operation at wharf, sunken barges, railroad wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1602
View Floating derrick CENTURY righting tugboat EDWIN TERRY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1890
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, vessel in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2506
View Unidentified sunken vessel at wharf, floating lumber
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1617
View Floating derrick raising Burns Bros. barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1628
View Container on deck, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1898
View Unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1904
View Container, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1906
View Floating derrick raising unidentified vessel, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1907
View Salvage operation, steamship MINNESOTA being towed
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1944
View Salvage of steamship MINNESOTA, deck view, being towed
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1948
View Pumping out vessel, possibly steamship HUTTONWOOD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2015
View Floating derrick CAPITOL and capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2053
View Salvaging steamship ST. PAUL, June 2, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-02
1964.660.2063
View Documents, three business cards, Leavitt Deep Sea Salvage, and 2 cards of B.F. Leavitt
gelatin glass negative
Leavitt Deep Sea Salvage Co.
1964.660.3410
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2090
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2096
View Righting and pumping out steamship ST. PAUL, August 27, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-08-27
1964.660.2105
View Pumping out and righting steamship ST. PAUL, September 11, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-11
1964.660.2114
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2124
View Capsized steamship at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2130
View Salvage operation, unidentified machinery and debris on deck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2139
View Drawing for Sommergibile Avtonomo
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2229
View Unidentified salvage operation, pumping out vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5020
View Unidentified salvage scene, deck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5037
View Salvage of steamboat SARATOGA, sunk in Hudson River, near Barrytown, October 13, 1906
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1906-10-13
1964.660.5045
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, partly raised, tug EDGAR BAXTER at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1646
View Tugs HUSTLER and TASCO (possibly) raising barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1654
View Steamer KEYPORT, bow view, sunk at the Battery, New York, floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1667
View View of bottom of tug GOV. FLOWER of Perth Amboy
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1683
View Floating derrick raising unidentified sunken vessel (barge)?
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1744
View 3-Masted schooner HENRY D. MAY under tow after sinking off Stone Horse Shoal, Vineyard Sound, MA, October 13, 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-10-13
1964.576.3
View Steamship BREMEN, upper deck, on Weehawken Banks, after Hoboken, NJ, fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.124
View Steamships BREMEN and MAIN after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.128
View Derrick RELIANCE raising railroad car from Hudson River near Newburgh, NY, September 6, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-06
2008.28.1.113
View Steamer EMELINE and derrick RELIANCE, Catskill Creek, NY, October 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-10
2008.28.1.128
View Steambboat POUGHKEEPSIE ashore at Stony Point, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-21
2008.28.3.146
View Steamer POUGHKEEPSIE ashore at Stony Point, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-21
2008.28.3.147
View Raising of US Army Transport RAWLINS sunk at Pier 22, Brooklyn, NY, April 10, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-10
2008.28.3.153
View Men on deck of ferry NORTHFIELD after collision in East River, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.3.164
View Ship GLENESSLIN burnt and sunk at Watson's Stores, Brooklyn, NY, September. 23, 1894.
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-09-23
2008.28.3.19
View Steamship NEW YORK aground on West Bank, NY Harbor, March 2, 1896
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1896-03-02
2008.28.3.22
View Men working on unidentified raised wrecked vessel, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.549
View Floating derrick CENTURY and tugboat at unidentified wreck; circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.550
View French steamship LA CAMPANIA stranded below Ft. Hamilton, LI, NY, May 6 & 7, 1894
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-05-06; 1894-05-07
2008.28.3.5
View Wreck of USS MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1898
2008.28.3.62
View Wreck of USS MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1898
2008.28.3.63
View Wreck of USS MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1898
2008.28.3.66
View Schooner PENOKEE sunk below Romer Shoal, September 14, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-09-14
2008.28.3.94
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.86
View Ferry CHICAGO sunk off Pier 13, New York harbor by collision with steamship AUGUSTA, October 31, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-31
2008.28.3.96
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising an anchor
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.34
View Floating derricks CENTURY and COLOSSUS hoisting debris from unidentified salvage operation
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.87
View Floating derricks hoisting debris from unidentified salvage operation
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.91
View Floating derrick hoisting metal piece from water, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.724
View Demonstration of submersible electrically-driven salvage pumps used by Merritt & Chapman Co., circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1039
View Floating derrick towing small boat in Cape Cod Canal, MA, circa 1916
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
circa 1916
1964.551.2
View Steamship towed in Cape Cod Canal, MA, circa 1916
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
circa 1916
1964.551.5
View Machinery or wreck debris on deck of floating derrick?, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.993
View 4-Masted schooner FOREST CITY of Savannah sunk near Vineyard Haven, MA, April 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-04
1964.569.1
View gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1681
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.2
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.8
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, deck view after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.542.4
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.542.6
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.3
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.8
View triple sheave salvage block
1957.852.A
View Salvage operation, probably S.S. JUANITA, double exposure
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4685
View Salvage operation, probably S.S. JUANITA, stranded, Venezuela, 1/10/1925, transporting equipment
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4691
View Salvage of S.S. ZULIA, port bow view of stranded vessel
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1901
1964.660.4700
View Stranded S. S. ZULIA, starboard view
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4710
View silver print
Hansen, Arthur
Circa 1945
1995.118.234
View Floating derrick raising tug THOMAS F. O'BRIEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1024
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising tugboat LEADER
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1242
View Lighters and floating derricks raising vessel
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.502
View Salvaging wreck of small boat WHISTLER from wharf fire
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.548
View Floating derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH, of NY, raising unidentified wreck
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.63
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, port view, on mud flat
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.652
View Steamer POUGHKEEPSIE floated
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-03
1964.660.143
View Pumping out of US Army transport INGALLS
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1901-06-14
1964.660.159
View US Transport INGALLS capsized on dry-dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.160
View Four floating derricks raising capsized rig (scaffolding?)
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-24
1964.660.163
View Floating derricks CENTURY and MONARCH raising scaffolding
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-24
1964.660.164
View Salvage schooner (?) JOHN W. CHITTENDEN with wreck ACARA?
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.221
View Floating derrick MONARCH working over stranded steam yacht LUCILLE
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-07-03
1964.660.235
View Sinking tug TRANSFER NO. 3, starboard view
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.254
View Sinking tug TRANSFER NO. 3, stern view
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.255
View Unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.299
View Sunken vessel, floating derrick, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.311
View Floating derrick, raised canal boat S. L. CLARK
gelation glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.314
View Railroad salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.322
View Dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2 sunk, Brooklyn, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-10
1964.660.345
View Dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2 being raised
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-10
1964.660.348
View Floating derricks raising sunken schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.362
View Schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER raised after being sunk
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.370
View Unidentified salvage operation, railroad tracks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.839
View Wreck of DUNHOLME (possibly), floating derrick hoisting sunken object
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1084
View Wreck of DUNHOLME (possibly), derrick hoisting twisted metal
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1090
View Floating derrick COMMISSIONER hoisting sunken truck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1094
View Floating derrick CHANCELLOR raising Mutual Milk & Cream Co.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1101
View Floating derrick CENTURY salvaging railroad float
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.404
View Hoisting truck out of water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.872
View Pumping out S.S. JOSE after fire at Pier 8, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.897
View Pumping out S.S. JOSE after fire at Pier 8, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.898
View Raising steamship, possibly small coastal steamer GRECIAN
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12
1964.660.1111
View Raising steamship, possibly small coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12
1964.660.1112
View Salvage of sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1127
View Floating derrick hoisting remains of wreck of LOIS V. CHAPPELS
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.899
View Floating derrick hoisting hull remains of wreck of LOIS V. CHAPPELS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.901
View Floating derrick WILL raising sidewheel steamer PERSEUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.904
View Derrick raising S.S. NANTUCKET, sunk, Baltimore, September 2, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.916
View Derrick raising S.S. NANTUCKET, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.918
View Derrick COMMISSIONER raising S.S. NANTUCKET, September 2, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.921
View Half raised wreck of S.S. DUNHOLME, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.929
View S. S. NANTUCKET, capsized, Baltimore, Maryland
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.935
View Floating derricks pumping out sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1151
View Floating derrick EDGAR raising sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1153
View Salvage of sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN, hoisting wood box
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1160
View Floating derricks CAPITOL and COLLEGIAN raising sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1161
View Salvage of tugboat ROBERT WHITE, ferryboat BALTIMORE in background
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1165
View Floating derrick hoisting gun turret
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1914-01-20
1964.660.1167
View Pumping out S.S. DUNHOLME, sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-11-17
1964.660.944
View Wreckage of S.S. DUNHOLME sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.947
View stereograph
Coan, Leander S.
1874
1992.2.13
View One of ten construction scene photographs
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5084
View Nine salvage scenes
gelatin negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922-09-00
1964.660.5086
View Twelve salvage scenes
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-01-12
1964.660.5087
View Twelve salvage scenes
gelatin negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5088
View Salvaging cars from sunken railroad carfloat at slip in Brooklyn
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1274
View Floating derrick COLOSSUS raising unidentified steamboat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2868
View Floating derricks MONARCH and CENTURY raising steamer C. F. BRADY of Peekskill
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2593
View Raising of steamer C. F. BRADY of Peekskill
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2596
View Steamship ANAHUAC stranded at Bellport, NY, April 7, 1924
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1924-04-07
1964.660.2900
View Vessel HELL GATE capsized, salvage operation to raise vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-01-22
1964.660.2633
View Derrick CENTURY raising capsized vessel HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2635
View Sunken floating derrick CORPORATION, steamer FREEPORT SULPHUR No. 5 behind
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2930
View Salvage of S.S. EGREMONT CASTLE, floating derrick CONVOY, 4-masted barkentine at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2937
View Salvage of S.S. EGREMONT CASTLE, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2940
View Salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3537
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising submerged tug TRANSFER NO. 5 of New Haven
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3023
View Pumping out sunken vessel, winter cover on
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3040
View Salvage of steamer PASTIME, bow view, pumping out
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3097
View Unidentified salvage operation; twisted metal from wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3127
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1494
View Unidentified salvage operation; floating derricks MONARCH and CONVEYOR raising wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3140
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derrick hoisting boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3170
View Unidentified salvage operation, boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3176
View Unidentified salvage operation, boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3180
View Unidentified salvage operation, boat wreckage, steamer RELIEF and I. J. MERRITT
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3182
View Unidentified salvage operation, boat wreckage on deck of floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3189
View Unidentified salvage operation, sunken and damaged vessels at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3199
View Salvage operation, wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3222
View Title page from "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser "Gladiator" by the Liverpool Salvage Association"
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1908-10-09
1964.660.3244
View Salvage, floating derrick MONARCH raising WESTERN UNION
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2982
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, pumping out
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2325
View Floating derricks CENTURY and COLOSSUS lifting debris from unidentified salvage operation
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2338
View Stern view of S.S. TANAMO, fire and salvage
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2376
View Capsized railroad barge No. 4
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1749
View Salvage of steamship SAGUA, deck damage
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1778
View Salvage of sunken submarine S48, derrick and lighter assisting
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2391
View Salvage of sunken submarine S48, floating derricks CENTURY and MONARCH assisting
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2393
View Damaged pipe raised from water, probably part of pipe installation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2416
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1505
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1516
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME; reconstructing ship
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1533
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, reconstructing ship
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1534
View Salvage of capsized floating grain elevator CERES, floating derricks MONARCH and CAPITOL helping
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922
1964.660.2456
View Salvage of steamship ANTILLA, of New York
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1573
View Steamship ANTILLA, of New York, with floating derricks and lighters
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1577
View Salvaging railroad car, hoisting onto deck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1830
View Sunken railroad barge, floating derrick CENTURY at right
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1831
View Document, pay slip to J.R. Jenkins, March 1, 1922 and April 13, 1922 for submarine cutting, and work recovering copper from barge ANODE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922-03-01
1964.660.2488
View Bow view, salvage of steamer MARY E. GORDON, at pier, floating derrick CENTURY at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1591
View Salvage of steamship MARY F. SCULLY, sunk at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1614
View Salvage of steamship MARY F. SCULLY sunk at wharf
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1616
View Starboard stern view of S.S. SARATOGA, sunk, lighter CHIEF and JOHN W. CHITTENDEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1910
View Pumping out S.S. SARATOGA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1915
View Pumping out vessel, unidentified salvage operation, at Lehigh Valley pier No. 44, tug EDGAR BAXTER at left
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1920
View Unidentified vessel and tugboat ROGER WILLIAMS, unidentified salvage operation at Lehigh Valley pier No. 44
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1922
View Salvage of steamer ISLANDER, floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1923
View Steam lighter RESOLUTE, salvage of steamship H.F. DIMOCK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1938
View Salvage operation, steamship MINNESOTA being towed, floating derrick COMMONWEALTH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1947
View Side view of unidentified vessel in dry dock, November 29, 1917
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1917-11-29
1964.660.1987
View Starboard view of steamship HUTTONWOOD, salvage operation, with lighter RESOLUTE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2009
View Pumping out vessel, possibly steamship HUTTONWOOD, tugboat EDGAR BAXTER, lighter HENRY SEYMOUR
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2016
View Salvage of steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1918-04-26
1964.660.2039
View Port view of steamship ST. PAUL with floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1918-04-26
1964.660.2043
View Raising of steamship ST. PAUL, April 26, 1918
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-04-26
1964.660.2045
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2056
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2093
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2097
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2098
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2099
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 11, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-11
1964.660.2107
View Three business cards, Leavitt Deep Sea Salvage Co.; B.F. Leavitt of Leavitt Sponge Fisheries Co., B.F. Leavitt
gelatin glass negative
Leavitt Deep Sea Salvage Co.
1964.660.3447
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 11, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-11
1964.660.2115
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 12, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-12
1964.660.2117
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL; September 12, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-12
1964.660.2119
View Unidentified machinery and debris on deck, salvage operation, pair of wheels and axle
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2136
View Salvage operation, unidentified machinery and debris on deck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2138
View Salvage of S.S. BERMUDEZ of Philadelphia; floating derrick CHAPMAN BROS.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2147
View Damaged dock and ship alist, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3473
View Submersible electrically-driven salvage pumps
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2182
View Floating derricks raising WEBER & BURKE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2195
View Illustrations for Ricuperatore Subacqueo PINO, for raising vessels
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2228
View Unidentified salvage scene, part of derrick, damaged negative
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5027
View Unidentified salvage scene, derrick hoisting something out of water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5032
View Unidentified salvage scene, deck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5036
View Salvage of S.S. BREMEN with lighter COMRADE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.5065
View Unidentified salvage operation of pumping out steamship, copy photograph
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5079
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, bow view, sunken
gelatin glass negative
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works
1964.660.1637
View Salvage of steamship LANSING being raised, barges CASCADE, MODERN NO. 2, NO. 50 H, IMARITA KELLERS of New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1645
View Stern view of tug GOV. FLOWER of Perth Amboy, on side
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1682
View Unidentified salvage operation, pumping out vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4878
View Unidentified salvage operation, pumping out vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4880
View Raising barge CHENAGO, tug EDGAR BAXTER and lighter barge CASCADE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1699
View Raising barge DETROIT, near Philadelphia, PA, November 8. 1916
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916-11-08
1964.660.1709
View Raising barge DETROIT, near Philadelphia, PA, 1916, using two floating derricks and two tugs
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916
1964.660.1713
View Pumping out barge DETROIT, near Philadelphia, PA, 1916
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916
1964.660.1716
View Sunken tugboat WM. J.M. CALDIN, with steamship DORA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1734
View Sunken tugboat WM. J.M. CALDIN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1735
View Carriages and benches on floating derrick, presumably salvaged from ferry NORTHFIELD after collision with ferry MAUCH CHUNK, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.337
View 4-Masted ship COUNTY OF EDINBURGH stranded at Point Pleasant, NJ, February 12, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-12
2008.28.3.102
View Burned sailing ship off Constable Hook, Bayonne, New Jersey, circa 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.3.109
View Steamship BREMEN on Weehawken Banks after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.123
View Steamer CEPHEUS raised, after sinking off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.101
View Ferry NORTHFIELD after collision with ferry MAUCH CHUNK, East River, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.3.168
View Coal Elevator CLARK NO. 2 capsized off Shooter's Island, NY, June 24, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-24
2008.28.3.177
View Schooner HANNAH F. CARLETON sunk on Flynn's Knoll, New York Harbor, September 30, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-09-30
2008.28.3.189
View Steamer CITY OF NORWALK sunk at Blackwell's Island, New York, March 30, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-30
2008.28.1.17
View Floating derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH raising steamboat ROSEDALE, NYC, September 4, 1896
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1896-09-04
2008.28.3.26
View Schooner ANDERSON sunk off Guilford, Connecticut
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.3.4
View Wreck of USS MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1898
2008.28.3.60
View Looking aft on Steamship GERMANIC, New York, NY, February 11, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1899-02-11
2008.28.3.84
View Pumps at work on Steamship GERMANIC, Hudson River, New York, February 11, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02-11
2008.28.3.86
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.87
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.91
View Pumping out steamer CEPHEUS, sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.97
View Transferring gold bars from steamship COLUMBIA to PEACOCK
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1962.1249.69
View Damaged ferry CHICAGO at Brooklyn Navy Yard after collision with steamship AUGUSTA on October 31, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-31
2008.28.4.133
View Raising ferry CHICAGO after collision with steamboat AUGUSTA, Pier 13, Hudson River, New York, NY, October 31, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-31
2008.28.4.136
View Floating derricks CENTURY and COLOSSUS hoisting debris from unidentified salvage operation
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.89
View Men on floating derrick with salvaged metal pieces, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.728
View Unidentified machinery, perhaps salvaged from wreck, July 16, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921
2008.28.8.1105
View Floating derrick hoisting twisted metal (vessel sheathing?) from harbor?, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.507
View Twisted metal (vessel sheathing?) hoisted on deck of floating derrick CENTURY, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.509
View Barge BRITANNIA stranded on Block Island, RI, May 1909
photographic postcard
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1909-05
1964.564
View Pay slip and receipt for Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co. project, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922
2008.28.5.141
View Tugboat ARAL and other salvage vessels with British steamship ANDREE sunk in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.151
View Steamer CITY OF NORWALK sunk at Blackwell's Island, New York, March 30, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-30
2008.28.2.55
View Dredge FLOOD ROCK in chains between derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH, Rikers Island, Bronx, New York, NY, August 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08
2008.28.2.153
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.4
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.7
View Dredge GAYLORD raising submarine F-4 (SKATE), off Pearl Harbor, HI, 1915
real photo postcard, divided back
2014.49.10164
View Salvage operation, probably S. S. JUANITA, deck view of stranded vessel
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4687
View Salvage operation, probably S.S. JUANITA, Venezuela, 1/10/1925, deck view
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4690
View Salvage operation, possibly S.S. JUANITA, stranded Venezuela, 1/10/1925
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4694
View Stranded S.S. ZULIA, starboard view
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4707
View snapshot album
Circa 1900
1952.1441
View Unidentified salvage operation, stranded steam ship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5051
View Bark FORTUNA aground
postcard
1974.659
View Ship LYDIA SKOLFIELD
albumen print
Child & Co.
July 12, 1892
1986.34.37
View photograph
1978.142.413
View Steamship aground; unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.531
View Raising sunken cattleboat CHELSEA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-03-07
1964.660.559
View Floating derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH raising steamboat ROSEDALE, NYC, September 4, 1896
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1896-09-04
1964.660.68
View Tug WM. E. CHAPMAN at work over wreck
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.72
View Floating derrick MONARCH salvaging train wreck
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.73
View Barge INDEPENDENT being pumped out
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1899-04
1964.660.77
View Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-02
1964.660.582
View Two lighters during salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.124
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising B&O lighter POTOMAC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-04-26
1964.660.618
View Derrick MONARCH and tug McCALDIN BROS. after sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-02
1964.660.625
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, port view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.653
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, bow view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.656
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, L.I. March 27, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-03-27
1964.660.146
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, starboard view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.662
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, starboard view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.663
View On board floating derrick; unidentified construction operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.200
View Tug ... SUMNER and floating derrick CENTURY; unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.236
View Railroad salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.325
View Raising dredge BALTIC sunk in Delaware River
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.327
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising dredge BALTIC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.329
View Raising dredge BALTIC sunk in Delaware River
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.330
View Dredge BALTIC raised after sinking in Delaware River
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.333
View Railroad car float #36 on the rocks, Sunken Meadow, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.334
View Railroad car float #36 on rocks at Sunken Meadow, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.335
View Pumping out railroad car float #36
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.337
View Railroad car float #36 on rocks, Sunken Meadow, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.339
View Unidentified salvage operation in icy waters
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.805
View Unidentified salvage operation in icy waters
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.806
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising tug UTICA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.816
View Salvaging metal from unidentified sunken wreck, possibly DUNHOLME
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1051
View Salvaging metal from unidentified sunken wreck, possibly DUNHOLME
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1053
View Schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER raised after being sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.367
View Two derricks raising S.S. JOSE after fire
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.828
View Unidentified salvage operation; railroad tracks on pier
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.836
View Unidentified salvage operation, girders
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.838
View Wreck of DUNHOLME (possibly), floating derrick COMPTROLLER hoisting twisted metal
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1085
View Floating derrick COMMISSIONER raising sunken truck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1092
View Floating derrick COMMISSIONER hoisting sunken truck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1095
View Floating derrick raising tug NEW YORK CENTRAL NO. 22 on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-02-05
1964.660.389
View Floating derrick CENTURY salvaging railroad float
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.400
View Floating derrick CENTURY salvaging railroad float
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.401
View S. S. BRIGHTON, bow view, ashore, Atlantic City, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-03-31
1964.660.412
View Pontoons lifting sunken vessel, possibly S.S. JOSE, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.881
View Lighter JOHN W. CHITTENDEN raising steamship, possibly small coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12
1964.660.1109
View Unidentified sunken steam vessel, "K" on stack
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1119
View Salvage of sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN, derricks EDGAR and COLLEGIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1128
View Raising sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1144
View Rifle from battleship INDIANA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-04-29
1964.660.434
View Derrick MONARCH hoisting rifle from deck of battleship INDIANA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-04-29
1964.660.440
View Pumping out sidewheel steamer PERSEUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.908
View Divers, sunken PERSEUS, sidewheel steamer, in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.914
View S. S. NANTUCKET, capsized, Baltimore, Maryland
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.936
View Wreckage of S.S. DUNHOLME, sunk, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.939
View Wreckage of S.S. DUNHOLME, sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.941
View Floating derrick hoisting gun turret
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1914-01-20
1964.660.1166
View U. S. N. spoon recovered from POLLUX wreck, Lawn, 1988
spoon
Silco
before 1942
2004.81.201
View Twelve salvage scenes
gelatin negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5091
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising sunken tugboat JERSEY CENTRAL, ferry RED BANK of Central Railroad
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2866
View Floating derricks MONARCH and CENTURY raising steamer C.F. BRADY of Peekskill
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2591
View Floating derrick CONSUL, pipe laying operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1300
View Deck of damaged vessel, pumping out, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3507
View Floating derricks raising capsized vessel HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2637
View Capsized vessel HELL GATE righted during salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-02-16
1964.660.2639
View Raising of S.S. SAGUA, bow view, S.S. MOUNT CLINTON at right, Nicaragua, November 15, 1923
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-11-15
1964.660.2655
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, view of deck, pipe laying ways in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1351
View Salvage of S.S. SANTA MARTA, port bow view, at dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2698
View Salvage of S.S. SANTA MARTA, with steam lighter RESOLUTE, other salvage vessels, S.S. CHARLES M. EVEREST
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2699
View Floating derrick CHIEF hoisting metal from unidentified salvage operation at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1388
View Metal on deck, unidentified salvage operation at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1390
View Salvage of tug TRANSFER NO. 5 of New Haven, floating derrick MONARCH helping to raise
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3022
View Salvaging sunken vessel with winter cover on; at left billethead of another vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3037
View Unidentified salvage operation, ship being raised
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3126
View Unidentified salvage operation, twisted metal from wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3128
View Floating derricks CONVEYOR and MONARCH raising wreck, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3138
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derricks CONVEYOR and MONARCH raising wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3139
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derrick hoisting boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3173
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derricks raising boat wreckage, marine divers
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3188
View Unidentified salvage operation, floating derrick raising boat wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3190
View Salvage operation, floating derrick century raising vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3205
View Page 4, "The Salvage of H. M. Cruiser GLADIATOR", fig. 2, The ST. PAUL after the Collision in Dry Dock at Southampton
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3247
View Page 15, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR", fig. 19, the ship righting, as seen from the deck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3258
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2326
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, salvage operation; HENRY SEYMOUR
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2329
View Starboard view of S.S. TANAMO, fire and salvage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2375
View Salvage of sunken submarine S48, derricks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2390
View Unidentified salvage scene, possibly raising submarine
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2394
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, stern view in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1513
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, starboard bow view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1521
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, starboard bow view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1523
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1526
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, deck view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1530
View Salvage of S.S. DUNHOLME, port bow view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1537
View Salvage of steamship SAGUA, deck damage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1781
View Steamship ANTILLA, of New York, aground, tug NORTH AMERICA and lighter JOHN W. CHITTENDEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1575
View Salvaging railroad cars
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1829
View Raising unidentified vessel, lighter RESOLUTE at left, floating derrick COMMODORE at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1839
View Raising vessel, lighters RESOLUTE, HENRY SEYMOUR, floating derrick COMMODORE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1844
View Capsized floating grain elevator CERES
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2465
View S. S. ANDREE sunk in harbor, port view, floating derrick CONTINENTAL at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2473
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, damaged vessel with lighter CHAPMAN BROS.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2498
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, damaged vessel with salvage vessels
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2500
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, hoisting twisted metal from damaged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2502
View photograph
After 1863
1979.90.144
View Raising unidentified wrecked vessel, D. H. Perry & Son grain elevator in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1876
View Floating derrick CENTURY righting tugboat EDWIN TERRY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1889
View Salvage of S.S. ANDREE, vessel in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2509
View Unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1896
View Container on deck, unidentified salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1899
View Floating derrick preparing to raise steamer ISLANDER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1927
View Page 19, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser "Gladiator", fig. 25, the "Gladiator in Portsmouth Dockyard (bow view)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3291
View Page 21, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser "Gladiator", fig. 27 view of ship from starboard side, looking forward, showing fracture and cofferdams
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3293
View Page 23, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3295
View Deck of vessel, salvage of steamship H.F. DIMOCK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1940
View Salvage of steamship MINNESOTA, deck view, being towed
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1949
View Steamer CHELSEA submerged, derrick CHIEF at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1979
View Deck view of steamer CHELSEA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1980
View Port view of steamship HUTTONWOOD, salvage operation, with lighter RESOLUTE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2008
View Salvage of steamship ST. PAUL, derricks COMMODORE and CAPITOL raising vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1918-04-26
1964.660.2037
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1918-04-26
1964.660.2040
View Port bow view of steamship ST. PAUL, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1918-04-26
1964.660.2041
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL with floating derrick, April 28, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-04-28
1964.660.2050
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL, floating derrick CHIEF
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2058
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2077
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL, July 14, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-07-14
1964.660.2079
View Machinery for righting capsized steamship ST. PAUL, July 22, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-07-22
1964.660.2080
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2091
View Righting and pumping out of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2092
View Righting and pumping out of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2094
View Barge loaded with stone ashore in front of house, misc. salvage pictures
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3474
View Deck of barge or floating derrick, chain on deck, misc. salvage picture
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3476
View Submersible electrically-driven salvage pumps
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2181
View Floating derricks raising WEBER & BURKE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2194
View Salvage operation, floating derrick COLOSSUS removing funnel from steamship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2264
View Salvage of S.S. MAIN and S.S. BREMEN after pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.5062
View Salvage of S.S. MAINE and BREMEN, with lighter WM. E. CHAPMAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.5063
View Salvage of S.S. MAIN and S.S. BREMEN after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.5067
View Salvage of tugboat S.Q. BROWN being raised by floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5076
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, stern view
gelatin glass negative
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works
1964.660.1638
View Steamer KEYPORT, bow view, sunk at the Battery, New York, floating derrick MONARCH at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1666
View Deck of steamer KEYPORT sunk at the Battery, New York, steamer ZEPHYR and HIGHLANDER in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1671
View Sunken tug KATHRYN, deck of floating derrick CENTURY, at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1689
View Raising barge DETROIT, near Philadelphia, PA, 1916, floating derrick COMPTROLLER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916
1964.660.1710
View Raising barge DETROIT, near Philadelphia, PA, 1916
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916
1964.660.1714
View Pumping out barge DETROIT, near Philadelphia, PA, 1916
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916
1964.660.1715
View Merritt & Chapman Company photograph album "A", 1892-1902
photograph album
Merritt & Chapman
1892-1902
2008.28.3
View Salvage of Steamships MAIN and BREMEN after pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.122
View Steamships BREMEN and MAIN after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.129
View Steamer EMELINE and derrick RELIANCE, Catskill Creek, NY, October 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-10
2008.28.1.127
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 27, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-27
2008.28.3.149
View Men on deck of ferry NORTHFIELD after collision in East River, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.3.167
View Steamship OLD DOMINION stranded on rocks off Milton Point, N.Y., July 6, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-06
2008.28.3.173
View Raising lighter MIDAS sunk at Pier 40, New York, February 3, 1895
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-02-03
2008.28.3.18
View Steam yacht LUCILLE stranded on Governor's Island Breakwater, NY, July 3, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-07-3
1964.521.16
View Railroad car float sunk at terminal of Brooklyn Wharf & Warehouse Co., NY, circa 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.3.28
View Steamboat CATSKILL raised after sinking in Hudson River, September 15, 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1897-09
2008.28.3.39
View Jersey Central Railroad locomotive being raised at their drawbridge, Newark Bay, October 25, 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-10-25
2008.28.3.40
View Barge sunk on Flynn's Knoll, NY Bay, March 5, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-05
1964.521.3
View Derrick MONARCH preparing to raise steamboat ERICSSON, Delaware River, February 16, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1898-02-18
2008.28.3.46
View Steamer PLYMOUTH aground off Newport, RI, June, 1894
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1894-06
2008.28.3.6
View Steamboat PLYMOUTH on rocks near Newport, RI, June 1894
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1894-06
2008.28.3.8
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.93
View Derrick RELIANCE raising steamer CEPHEUS, sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.98
View Barge sunk on Flynn's Knoll, NY Bay, March 5, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-05
1964.521.4
View Looking across pontoons after collision of Ferry CHICAGO and steamship AUGUSTA, October 31, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-31
2008.28.3.97
View Floating derrick LOS ANGELES hoisting smoke stack? from another vessel, circa 1930
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1930
1962.1249.89
View Floating derrick LOS ANGELES hoisting sloop yacht from another vessel, circa 1930
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1930
1962.1249.90
View Steam lighter LEVIATHAN of Boston, stranded on bank of Cape Cod Canal near Bourne Bridge, MA, September 6, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-09-06
1964.592.2
View Ferry CHICAGO on dry dock at Brooklyn Navy Yard after collision with steamship AUGUSTA on October 31,1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-31
2008.28.4.134
View Tugboat HUSTLER and derrick MONARCH working over S.S. BREMEN on Weehawken Banks after fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.219
View Twisted metal pieces on floating derrick or dock, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.729
View Unidentified machinery, perhaps salvaged from wreck, July 16, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921
2008.28.8.1104
View Machinery or wreck debris on deck of floating derrick?, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.994
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, deck view after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.2
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, off Montauk Long Island, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.7
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.6
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.542.3
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.542.8
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.6
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.2
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.7
View nitrate negative
Welt, Jess
1917
1980.140.3
View Floating derrick and tugboats, probably by Merritt, Chapman & Scott Corp., circa 1915-1930
real photo postcard, white border
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1915-1930
2014.49.9484
View Salvage operation, probably S.S. JUANITA, stranded
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4686
View Salvage operation, possibly S.S. JUANITA, stranded Venezuela, 1/10/1925, unloading
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4689
View Salvage operation, probably S.S. JUANITA, stranded in Venezuela, 1/10/1925, truck on raft
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1925-01-10
1964.660.4697
View S. S. ZULIA, stranded, starboard view
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4705
View nitrate negative
1983.22.110
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