Raising 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
paper
4-1/2 x 6-5/8 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.4 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; capsized bark LA ESCOCESA being raised by salvage vessels, after collision with tugboat MCCALDIN BROS., off Robbins Reef Light, New York Bay, March 23, 1899; handwritten in negative lower left "526"; 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.
2008.28.4.37