Salvage vessels assisting steamship HUTTONWOOD off Brooklyn, NY, after explosion in hold on August 6, 1918

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Brooklyn
1918-08-06
paper
5 x 6-7/8 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "6144", and on album page "HUTTONWOOD"; salvage vessels assisting steamship HUTTONWOOD off Brooklyn, NY, after explosion in hold on August 6, 1918; from original negative 1964.660.2018; see related photographs 2008.28.8.221-231, 333-237; see accession file for August 8, 1918, "New York Times" article about the explosion.

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