Ice-covered deck of British cargo steamship DRUMELZIER ashore at Fire Island, NY, December 1904

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Fire Island
1904-12
paper
4 x 6 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.9 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower right "1816"; ice-covered deck of British cargo steamship DRUMELZIER ashore at Fire Island, NY, December 1904; see related photographs 2008.28.9.560-563, 565, 615-616; rescue of the crew took several days; see accession file for New York Times article December 27, 1904, and USLSS Annual Report June 30, 1905.

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