Floating derricks RELIANCE, CENTURY, and lighter WM. E. CHAPMMAN raising Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad car floats, off Hoboken, NJ, summer 1904

gelatin silver print

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.9 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower right "1720"; floating derricks RELIANCE, CENTURY, and lighter WM. E. CHAPMMAN raising Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad car floats, off Hoboken, NJ, summer 1904; tugboat MONTCLAIR at left; probably after wharf fire in Hoboken, in May 1904; see related photographs 2008.28.9.402-410, 481-486, 490-491.