Steamer JOHN P. WILSON sunk at City Island, NY, July 1913
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York, Bronx, City Island
1913-07-5 - 1913-07-09
paper
3-1/4 x 5-1/2 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "3931-C/ film"; view from dock of sidewheel steamer JOHN P. WILSON sunk at City Island, NY, July 1913; sank on July 5, 1913, and raised and towed to New York by Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co., on July 9, 1913; see related photographs 2008.28.7.236-248. Ref: Morris & Quinn, "Shipwrecks in New York Waters", page 140.
2008.28.7.240