Interior view of fire damage aboard American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920

gelatin silver print

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "6589", and on album page "S.S. 'ST. LOUIS'/ SUNK FLETCHER'S DRY DOCK, HOBOKEN,/ JAN - 1920."; interior view of fire damage aboard American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920; see related photographs 2008.28.8.629-653; see accession file for account of fire aboard vessel January 8, 1920, as it was being converted from troop ship to ocean liner.