Floating derrick CENTURY, probably assisting fishing schooner CYNTHIA aground on Romer Shoal, NJ-NY, April 1906

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, Romer Shoal
1906-04
paper
4 x 6 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.9 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower left "1953"; floating derrick CENTURY, probably assisting fishing schooner CYNTHIA aground on Romer Shoal, NJ-NY, April 1906; see related photograph 2008.28.9.868-690; see accession file for possibly related article in April 22, 1906, Boston Sunday Post for account.

2008.28.9.689