Floating derrick CENTURY raising 4-masted schooner DUSTIN G. CRESSY after collision with steamship VALERIA, New York Harbor, February 19, 1917

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York Bay
1917-02-19
paper
4 x 6 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "5808", and in negative at bottom "SCHR 'DUSTIN G.CRESSY'/ CAPSIZED AFTER COLLISION WITH STMR. 'VALERIA'/ FEBR. 19, 1917", and on album page "Sch. 'Dustin G. Cressy' capsized off Governor's Il. 2/19/17"; floating derrick CENTURY raising 4-masted schooner DUSTIN G. CRESSY in New York Harbor off Governors Island, after collision with steamship VALERIA, February 19, 1917; Statue of Liberty in background left; see related photographs 2008.28.7.1370-1377; see accession file for "New York Times" article February 20, 1917, reporting the accident.

2008.28.7.1371