Bark LA ESCOCOESA sunk off Robbins Reef Light, NJ, March 23, 1899
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York Bay
1899-03-23
paper
4-1/2 x 6-3/4 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.4 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten in negative at bottom "Bark 'La Escocesa' capsized and sunk with Tug 'McCaldin Bros'/ off Robbins Reef Light. March 23, 1899./ Compliments of Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.", and lower left "518"; capsized bark LA ESCOCESA, off Robbins Reef Light, NJ, 2 men in rowboat lower left; see related photographs 2008.28.4.25-26, 28-30, 32-33, 35-41; see accession file for account of suit brought by McCaldin Bros. Company.
2008.28.4.26