Meteorite on board floating derrick CENTURY (possibly the "Ahnighito meteorite" discovered by Robert E. Peary in 1894), September 30, 1904

gelatin silver print

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.9 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower left "1745"; 4 men posing with 36-1/2 ton meteorite hoisted aboard floating derrick CENTURY, September 30, 1904; see duplicate 1964.521.105, and related photographs 2008.28.9.504-506. [Possibly the "Ahnighito meteorite" discovered by Robert E. Peary in Greenland in 1894, which he later sold to the American Museum of Natural History.]