Steamship METAPAN listing, with salvage vessel I.J. MERRITT alongside, East River, New York, NY, August 1913

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York, East River
1913-08
paper
3 x 4 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "3946-A/ film", and on album page "S/S 'Metapan" in sinking condition at Burling Slip"; port bow view of steamship METAPAN listing, with salvage vessel I.J. MERRITT alongside, East River, New York, NY, August 1913; see related photographs 2008.28.7.259-264; see accession file for New York Times, August 10, 1913, article describing METAPAN at Pier 15 taking on water due to open seacock.

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