Floating derrick MONARCH raising tugboat WM. E. FERGUSON, probably after collision with tugboat DEFIANCE, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, February 1903

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Brooklyn, Erie Basin
1903-02
paper
6-1/4 x 4-3/8 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.9 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower right "1525"; floating derrick MONARCH raising tugboat WM. E. FERGUSON, probably after collision with tugboat DEFIANCE off Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, February 1903; see related photographs 2008.28.9.300-303; ref: "Annual Report of the Supervising Inspector-General Steamboat-Inspection Service . . . for fiscal year ended June 30, 1904", page 29.

2008.28.9.303