Floating derrick MONARCH hoisting oil tank, New York, NY, probably February 4, 1914

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York
1914-02-04
paper
4 x 5-1/2 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "5008-A"; floating derrick MONARCH hoisting oil tank, New York, NY, probably February 4, 1914; from camera copy negative 1964.660.1173; see related photographs 2008.28.7.492; see caption #8, page 17 in "Black Horse of the Sea", "Derrick MONARCH, 350 tons lifting capacity, transporting and placing large oil storage tank, New York Harbor."

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