Surfboat launching from the beach, possibly related to rescue from stranded steamship QUEEN LOUISE at Sea Girt, New Jersey, February 1914

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-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"; launching of surfboat from the beach, possibly related to rescue from stranded steamship QUEEN LOUISE at Sea Girt, New Jersey, February 1914; 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.

2008.28.7.532