Lighter HENRY SEYMOUR and tugboat EDGAR BAXTER assisting steamship HUTTONWOOD off Brooklyn, NY, after explosion on August 6, 1918
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Brooklyn
1918-08-06
paper
5 x 7 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "6142", and on album page "HUTTONWOOD"; lighter HENRY SEYMOUR and tugboat EDGAR BAXTER assisting steamship HUTTONWOOD off Brooklyn, NY, after explosion in hold on August 6, 1918; from original negative 1964.660.2016; see related photographs 2008.28.8.221-231, 333-237; see accession file for August 8, 1918, "New York Times" article about the explosion.
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