Steamship TASCO pumping oil out of stranded steamship LOUISIANA near Ocean City, MD, March 1917

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, MD, Ocean City
1917-03
paper
3-1/8 x 5-3/8 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "5869-B.", and in negative lower left "S.S. LouisiANA/ OceanN City, Md. Mar 1917./ S.S. TASCO Pumping out oil.", and on album page "S.S. 'Louisiana' Ashore/ Ocean City - Md. 2/4/17 [sic]."; steamship TASCO pumping oil out of stranded steamship LOUISIANA near Ocean City, MD, March 1917; see related photographs 2008.28.7.1365-1367; see accession file for detailed account of attempted rescue by US Coast Guard Cutter YAMACRAW, and loss of life.

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