Steamship BOSTON CITY sunk off Southwest Spit [New York Harbor?], February 3, 1904

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York Bay
1904-02-03
paper
5-3/4 x 3-3/4 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.9 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower left "1572", and on back "Taken / Feby 3 1904 / 3,15 PM"; stern view of steamship BOSTON CITY sunk off Southwest Spit [New York Harbor?], February 3, 1904, 3:15 PM; men in rowboat (surfboat?) at right; see related photographs 1964.521.85-86 and 2008.28.9.337-355; see accession file for account of accident.

2008.28.9.350