Coal elevator CLARK NO. 2 capsized and sunk off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, June 24, 1901

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York, Staten Island, Shooters Island
1901-06-24
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 "897"; coal elevator CLARK NO. 2 capsized and sunk off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, June 24, 1901; from original negative 1964.660.162; see duplicate 2008.28.3.177; see related photographs 2008.28.4.356-360, 362; see accession file for New York Times article June 25, 1901 (black steward, name unknown, killed in accident.)

2008.28.4.356