Clyde Line steamship ONEIDA sunk beside Pier 29, East River, New York, NY, next to Brooklyn Bridge, September 21, 1897

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York, East River
1897-09-21
paper
4-5/8 x 6-3/8 in.

Silver gelatin print in photograph album 1964.520 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten on album page "Page 14" and "295", and on photograph upper left "3 sec 64 stop C.D."; Clyde Line steamship ONEIDA sunk beside Pier 29, East River, New York, NY, next to Brooklyn Bridge, September 21, 1897; floating derrick MONARCH alongside, men standing on pier; see related photographs 1964.520.114-117, 132; see magazine "The Quaker" ("The Junior Munsey"), Vol. VI, No. 3, Oct. 1899, for short account of sinking "due to a shifting of the cargo during the process of unloading."

1964.520.116