Passenger steamship PENN sunk after burning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1914

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, PA, Philadelphia
1914-09
paper
3 x 4 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower left "3966 film", and on album page "S/S 'Penn' sunk/ Philadelphia"; passenger steamship PENN sunk after burning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1914; see related photographs 2008.28.7.334-335; see accession file for account of fire and sinking from "International Marine Engineering", Vol. XIX, Jan.-Dec. 1914, page 83.

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