Schooner ONLY SON hauled out after collision, probably Wards Island, NY, July 1895

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York, Wards Island (possibly)
1895-07
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 "Schr 'Only Son' on Wards ways/ July 1895"; port view of schooner ONLY SON hauled out, possibly on Wards Island, NY; uncertain if this is ONLY SON built 1853 or ONLY SON built 1865; see accession file for New York Times article, July 24, 1895, describing yacht NEAERA running into schooner ONLY SON; see related photographs 2008.28.2.134, 139-141.

2008.28.2.134