Bridge? accident

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, Hackensack River
paper
4-1/2 x 6-1/2 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.6 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; unidentified bridge? accident; see related photograph 2008.28.6.24-26; caption from "Black Horse of the Sea", page 35, "One side of the heavy bascule span of this Hackensack River Bridge collapsed one night, disrupting traffic over the Lincoln Highway into Jersey City and New York. But huge fragments were quickly reduced to handling size by the Underwater Cutting Torch, making way for a temporary bridge. Service was restored in record time."

2008.28.6.26