Floating derrick MONARCH raising 3-masted schooner WILLIAM BISBEE in New York Harbor, May 19, 1904

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York Bay
1904-05-19
paper
3-7/8 x 5-7/8 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.9 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower left "1620", and upper left "Schr Wm Bisbee"; floating derrick MONARCH raising 3-masted schooner WILLIAM BISBEE in New York Harbor, May 19, 1904; anchor Line steamship FURNESSIA collided with WILLIAM BISBEE, which sank off Fire Island and was towed to New York Harbor where she was righted; see duplicate 1964.521.93; see related photographs 2008.28.9.394-397; see accession file for account of the accident.

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