Pumping out steamship SARATOGA, probably at Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, Brooklyn, NY, July 1917
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Brooklyn
1917-07
paper
3-1/4 x 5-1/4 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "6003", and on album page "S/S. SARATOGA."; pumping out steamship SARATOGA, probably at Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, Brooklyn, NY, after being towed from Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, July 1917, after rammed by steamship PANAMA; from original negative 1964.660.1915; see related photographs 2008.28.8.21-29, 67-73; see accession file for account of accident.
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