Floating derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH on either side of submerged steamboat ROSEDALE, East River, New York City, September 4, 1896

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York
1896-09-04
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 in negative at bottom "Steamboat 'Rosedale'/ being raised by Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co. at Broome St. E.R. Sept 4, 1896.", and handwritten on photograph upper left "1/50 sec B.S./ 8 stop 10 A.M."; derrick barges RELIANCE and MONARCH on either side of submerged steamboat ROSEDALE, East River, New York City, September 4, 1896; see original glass negative 1964.660.68 ( negative number 241); see related photographs 2008.28.2.242-248, and 2008.28.3.25-26.

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