British steamship DRUMELZIER sunk off Fire Island, NY, December 26, 1904
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Fire Island
1904-12-26
paper
4 x 6 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.9 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower left "1874"; British steamship DRUMELZIER sunk off Fire Island, NY, December 26, 1904; see related photographs 2008.28.560-563, 565, 615-616; the rescue of the crew took several days; see accession file for New York Times articles December 27, 29, 1904, and January 8, 1905; see USLSS Annual Report June 30, 1905.
2008.28.9.616