Floating derrick assisting steamer ISLANDER ashore at Rikers Island, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York, Bronx, Rikers Island
circa 1917
paper
3-3/4 x 6 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "6020", and on album page "PROP. 'ISLANDER' SUNK RIKER'S ISL."; floating derrick assisting steamer ISLANDER ashore at Rikers Island, New York, NY, circa 1917; from original negative 1964.660.1925; see related photographs 2008.28.92-97.
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