United Fruit Company cargo vessel METAPAN after collision with steamship IOWAN, Ambrose Channel, New York Bay, NY, on October 15, 1914

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, Ambrose Channel; USA, NY, New York Bay
1914-10-15
paper
3-1/4 x 4-1/4 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "5153-G/ film", and on album page "S.S. 'METAPAN' SUNK ENTRANCE AMBROSE CHANNEL/ OCT. 15, 1914."; starboard view of United Fruit Company cargo vessel METAPAN sunk after collision in the fog with steamship IOWAN in Ambrose Channel, New York Bay, NY, on October 15, 1914; see related photographs 2008.28.7.647-653, 656-664, 694-697; see accession file for October 16, 1914, New York Times article about the accident.

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