Floating derrick CHIEF and lighter JOHN W. CHITTENDEN assisting sunk troop ship SARATOGA, probably at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, July 1917
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York, Staten Island, Tompkinsville
1917-07
paper
4-1/4 x 6-3/4 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "5934", and on album page "TROOP SHIP SARATOGA"; floating derrick CHIEF and lighter JOHN W. CHITTENDEN assisting sunk troop ship SARATOGA, probably at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, July 1917, after rammed by steamship PANAMA; from original negative 1964.660.1865; see related photographs 2008.28.8.21-29; see accession file for account of accident.
2008.28.8.21