Floating derricks assisting steamer MOHAWK after she ran ashore at Hyde Park, NY, Hudson River, September 29, 1913

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Hyde Park; USA, Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
1913-09-29
paper
3 x 4 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "film/ 3979-a"; port view of sidewheel steamer MOHAWK after she ran ashore, due to break in steering gear, at Hyde Park, NY, on the Hudson River, September 29, 1913; probably lighter CHAMPION and floating derrick MONARCH assisting; see related photographs 2008.28.7.317-333; see duplicate print postcard 1964.575.3; see accession file for "New York Times" article about the accident.

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