Steamship MAIN destroyed by fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30 - 1900
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NJ, Hoboken; USA, NJ, Weehawken
1900-06-30
paper
4-1/2 x 6-3/8 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.4 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten in negative lower left "729" and at bottom "S.S. 'Main'/ After being flooded - Destroyed by fire June 30 - 1900"; after pier fire, Jersey Flats, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900; S. S. BREMEN in background; Weehawken shoreline is visible. See original negative 1964.660.102; see duplicate 2008.28.4.216; see related photographs 1964.660.95, 97-114, 117-122, 126-129, 135, 5063-5064, 5071-5072, and 2008.28.4.216-218.
2008.28.4.216