Probably steamship QUEEN LOUISE at Sea Girt, New Jersey, February 1914
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NJ, Sea Girt
1914-02
paper
3-1/4 x 5-1/2 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "5051" [mistake, probably is 5050]; starboard view of vessels, photographed from beach, possibly related to stranding of steamship QUEEN LOUISE at Sea Girt, New Jersey, February 1914; from original negative 1964.660.1198 (negative number 5050); see related photographs 2008.28.7.530-532, and possibly 494-498 and 503-510; 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.
2008.28.7.530