Railroad car float sunk at terminal of Brooklyn Wharf & Warehouse Co., NY, circa 1900

gelatin print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Brooklyn
circa 1900
paper
4-1/2 x 6-1/2 in.

Gelatin print in album 2008.28.3 of Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.; printed in negative lower left "115"; handwritten on album page below picture "R.R. FLOAT/ Sunk at terminal of Brooklyn Wharf & Warehouse Co. above Wall St. Ferry."; wharf scene; raising a sunken car float north of Brooklyn terminal of Wall Street Ferry (Montague Street). Derrick barge MONARCH, and apparently RELIANCE, working.


2008.28.3.28

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