Tanker JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER aground off Tampico, Mexico, 1919-1920
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
Mexico, Tamaulipas, Tampico
1919-1920
paper
4-3/4 x 6-3/4 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "6768"; damaged hull of tanker JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER in dry dock, possibly Tampico, Mexico, 1919-1920; see related photographs 2008.28.8.800-812; see accession file for notice in "The Nautical Gazette" (Vol. 99, page 442, October 2, 1920) about accident.
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