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Ship GLENESSLIN after fire, Brooklyn, NY, September 1894

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Brooklyn
1894-09-23
paper
4-1/2 x 6-1/2 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.2 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten on album page "Sp 'Glenesslin' Burnt & sunk at Watsons Stores/ Sept 23d 1894"; port bow view of sunken GLENESSLIN, female figurehead visible, Brooklyn, NY; see "Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac 1895" entry for Sept. 23, 1894, "Iron ship 'Glenesslin,' kerosene laden, on fire at Watson's Stores, is sunk to put out flames."; see related photographs 2008.2.48-54, and 2008.28.3.19.


2008.28.2.50

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