Steamship AILSA sunk after collision in fog, The Narrows, New York Bay, NY, March 1896

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York Bay
1896-03
paper
4-5/8 x 6-5/8 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.2 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten on album page "S.S. 'Alsie' [sic] Sunk by collision with S.S. 'La Burgogne' [sic] March 96"; 2 masts of sunken steamship AILSA visible, several rowboats; see New York Times article March 1, 1896, for account of collision in fog February 29, 1896, near The Narrows, New York Harbor; see related photograph 2008.28.2.249.

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