Derrick RELIANCE raising steamer CEPHEUS, sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892

cyanotype

Cyanotype in photograph album 2008.28.1; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation Collection; handwritten on album page "Str 'Cepheus'" and "Sunk off Coney Island Point/ August 12th 1892" and "Enlarge this" and "Lantern Slide" and "Chf Engr ???"; lighter HUSTLER and derrick RELIANCE raising sidewheel steamer CEPHEUS (starboard bow view); see related photographs 2008.28.1.77-101 , 103. [Ref: see "The Evening World (New York, NY)", August 13, 1892]