"No Time to Be Lost on Building Fortifications at Gull Island", newspaper clipping, March 1898

newspaper clipping

EPHEMERA
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Suffolk County, Great Gull Island
1898-03
paper
4 x 2-1/4 in.

Newspaper clipping mounted on ledger paper in photograph album 2008.28.10 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; from unidentified newspaper, handwritten date "Mar 22 1898", headline "No Time to Be Lost on Building Fortifications at Gull Island", refers to T.A. Scott Company, "Captain Scott's lighter Diver will this morning take over a load of lumber for the construction of shanties, stables, etc." to house men constructing fortification on Gull Island, presumably Fort Michie, Great Gull Island, NY; see related photographs 2008.28.10.37-45.

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