Steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899

gelatin silver print

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.4 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; ice-covered 4-masted steamship GERMANIC at wharf; handwritten in negative lower right "LOOKING AFT S/S GERMANIC/ FEB. 11, 1899./ COMPLIMENTS - MERRITT & CHAPMAN/ D&W Co." and "514" handwritten in ink at bottom; see related photographs 2008.28.4.1-22, 24, 27, 44, 46 and 2008.28.3.83-87; see accession file for account of GERMANIC sinking in Hudson River, New York, covered with ice after North Atlantic storm, February, 1899.