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; view from above of ice-covered 4-masted steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier 45, spectators and carts on street; "504" handwritten in negative lower right; see related photographs 2008.28.4.1-22, 24 (duplicate), 27, 44, 46 and 2008.28.3.83-87; see accession file for account of GERMANIC sinking at her berth in Hudson River, New York, covered with ice after North Atlantic storm, February, 1899.