Steamship ALUM CHINE after dynamite explosion in its hold, Baltimore harbor, Maryland, March 7, 1913

gelatin silver print

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

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "3987", and on album page "S.S. 'ALUM CHINE'; floating derrick hoisting twisted metal from wreck of steamship ALUM CHINE after dynamite explosion in its hold, Baltimore harbor, Maryland, on March 7, 1913; from original negative 1964.660.1086; see related photographs 2008.28.7.348-355; see accession file for description of accident from "International Marine Engineering", Vol XIX, January to December 1914, page 160.

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