3-Masted schooner BESSIE WHITING of Port Jefferson, partially sunk, probably New York Bay, after collision on December 26, 1905
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York Bay
1905-12-26
paper
4 x 6 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.9 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper left "1909"; port stern view of 3-masted schooner BESSIE WHITING of Port Jefferson, partially sunk, probably New York Bay after collision on December 26, 1905, with dumper towed by tugboat JOHN FLEMING; see related photograph 2008.28.9.651; for account of the accident see "Report of the Department of Commerce & Labor", ending December 31, 1905.
2008.28.9.652