Breeches buoy aparatus set up to rescue people from steamship QUEEN LOUISE stranded at Sea Girt, New Jersey, February, 1914

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NJ, Sea Girt
1914-02
paper
3-5/8 x 4-5/8 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten on album page "S.S. QUEEN LOUISE' ASHORE SEA GIRT, N.J. FROM MR. HUTCHESON'S; people on beach with breeches buoy aparatus set up to rescue people from steamship QUEEN LOUISE stranded at Sea Girt, New Jersey, February, 1914; see related photographs 2008.28.7.494-498, 503-510, and possibly 530-532; see accession file for 2 New York Times articles (Feb. 8-9, 1914) reporting the vessel going ashore in the fog, and the rescue operations.

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