Floating derrick 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
paper
4 x 6 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "5811", and on album page "Sch. 'Dustin G. Cressy' capsized off Governor's Il. 2/19/17"; floating derrick (probably CENTURY) raising 4-masted schooner DUSTIN G. CRESSY in New York Harbor off Governors Island after collision with steamship VALERIA, February 19, 1917; see related photographs 2008.28.7.1370-1377; see accession file for "New York Times" article February 20, 1917, reporting the accident.

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