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; bow view of capsized bark LA ESCOCESA being raised by floating derrick MONARCH and other salvage vessels after collision with tugboat MCCALDIN BROS off Robbins Reef Light, New York Bay, March 23, 1899; handwritten in negative lower left "527"; 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.
2008.28.4.40