Metal scrap salvaged by southern Iron & Metal Co. from steamship ALUM CHINE after explosion, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1913

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, MD, Baltimore
1913-03
paper
4 x 6-1/4 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten in negative lower right "SCRAP FROM 'S.S. ALUME CHINE'/ HANDLED BY 'SOUTHERN IRON & METAL CO'/ BALTI. MD."; metal scrap salvaged by southern Iron & Metal Co. from steamship ALUM CHINE after 300 tons of dynamite in her hold exploded while loading cargo for Panama, March 7, 1913, Baltimore, Maryland; see related photographs 2008.28.7.296-299; see accession file for 2 articles about the incident.

2008.28.7.297