Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Brooklyn, Coney Island
1892-08-12
paper
4-1/2 x 6-1/2 in.
Cyanotype in photograph album 2008.28.1; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation Collection; handwritten on album page "Str 'Cepheus'" and "Sunk off Coney Island Point/ Aug. 12th 1892", and handwritten in photograph "No 58"; stern view of half sunk sidewheel steamer CEPHEUS, floating derricks on both sides; see related photographs 2008.28.1.77-101 , 103. [Ref: see "The Evening World (New York, NY)", August 13, 1892]
2008.28.1.93