Ferry PLAINFIELD burned and sunk off Ellis Island, New York Bay, September 14, 1900

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York Bay
1900-09-14
paper
4-3/8 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 "768"; ferry PLAINFIELD burned and sunk off Ellis Island September 14, 1900; derrick barges and Jersey City coal trestle pier in background; see original negative 1964.660.128; see duplicate 2008.28.3.135; see similar views 2008.28.3.134 and 2008.28.4.247.


2008.28.4.248

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