Schooner yacht METEOR after launching from Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding Co., Shooters Island, Staten Island, New York, NY, 1902

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York, Staten Island, Shooters Island
1902
paper
4 x 6 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.4 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; starboard bow view of schooner yacht METEOR dressed full, just after launching from Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding Co., Shooters Island, Staten Island, New York, NY, 1902; steamboat A.A. SUMNER alongside; built for German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II; later home-ported at Kiel, Germany; see related photographs 2008.28.4.458-468.

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