Raising ferry COLLEGE POINT wrecked near North Brother Island, Bronx, New York, December 13, 1901
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Bronx County, North Brother Island
1901-12-13
paper
4 x 6-1/2 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.4 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten in negative lower left "953"; ferry COLLEGE POINT being raised after wrecked near North Brother Island, Bronx, New York, December 13, 1901; stick lighter C.I. GIBBS JR. at right, and unidentified vessel at left; see duplicate 2008.28.3.198; see related photographs 2008.28.4.397-403; see accession file for December 14, 1901, New York Times article about the wreck, and saving passengers and horses.
2008.28.4.403