Ship GLENESSLIN after fire, Brooklyn, NY, September 1894
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-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"; bow view of ship GLENESSLIN listing in slip, figurehead visible; see related photographs 2008.28.2.48-54 and 2008.28.3.19; 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."
2008.28.2.48