Steamship INDUS at wharf, probably New York, NY, after running aground in fog off Fire Island, January 1905

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York
1905-01
paper
4 x 6 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.9 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower right "1837"; deck view of steamship INDUS at wharf, probably New York, NY, January 1905, after running aground in fog off Fire Island, on her way to New York from Havana, Cuba, with cargo of sugar; from original negative 1964.660.507 (identified as steamship LONDON); see related photographs 2008.28.9.578-582, 585-587; see accession file for transcription of newspaper account.

2008.28.9.586