Floating derrick COMPTROLLER raising barge DETROIT after rammed on by steamship DELAWARE in Delaware River, August 24, 1916
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, Delaware River; USA, NJ, Kaighn Point
1916-08
paper
4 x 6 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "5722"; floating derrick COMPTROLLER raising sunk barge DETROIT after it was rammed on August 24, 1916, by Clyde Line steamship DELAWARE in Delaware River, off Kaighn Point, NJ; from original negative 1964.660.1710; see related photographs 2008.28.7.1226-1239; possibly related to photographs 2008.28.7.1240-1246; see accession file for newspaper article about the accident.
2008.28.7.1227