Floating derricks pumping out sunk barge DETROIT, probably November, 1916
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, Delaware River; USA, NJ, Kaighn Point
1916-08; 1916-11-08
paper
4 x 6 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "5733", and in negative at bottom "FLOATING BARGE 'DETROIT'/ NEAR PHILA., PA.,/ NOV. 8, 1916"; floating derricks pumping out 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 1964.660.1719; 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.
2008.28.7.1237