United Fruit Co. cargo vessel METAPAN in dry dock after collision with steamship IOWAN in Ambrose Channel, New York Bay, NY, October 15, 1914
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, Ambrose Channel; USA, NY, New York Bay
1914-10
paper
6 x 4 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "5186", damaged hull of United Fruit Company cargo vessel METAPAN in dry dock after collision in the fog with steamship IOWAN in Ambrose Channel, New York Bay, NY, on October 15, 1914; from original negative 1964.660.1291; 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.
2008.28.7.695