Cofferdam around engine room of canal boat SILEX of Cold Spring, NY, refloated March 12, 1919

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, Connecticut River; USA, CT, Essex
1919-03-12
paper
3-3/4 x 4-3/4 in.

Gelatin silver print from Merritt-Chapman & Scott; handwritten on back "Steam Canal Boat 'Silex' / Mar. 12, 1919. / Showing coffer-dam around / the engine room."; cofferdam around engine room of canal boat SILEX of Cold Spring, NY, refloated March 12, 1919, after sinking near Essex, CT, on December 17, 1918; see related photographs 1964.590.1-8; see G.W. Blunt White Library, T.A. Scott Co. Collection, Box 24, Folder 6 (W8d).

1964.590.2