Norwegian ship ARTENSIS aground off beach at Seaside Park, NJ, June 1916
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NJ, Seaside Park
1916-06
paper
overall: 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 left "5648"; port view of Norwegian ship ARTENSIS aground off beach at Seaside Park, NJ, June 1916; after running aground the crew painted Norwegian flag on hull to indicate vessel from a neutral country; see accession file for account of the ARTENSIS going ashore in fog June 8, 1916; see related photographs 2008.28.1178-1184.
2008.28.7.1183