"Three Big Derricks", newspaper clipping, March 25, 1898

newspaper clipping

EPHEMERA
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, CT, New London
1898-03-25
paper
1 x 2-1/2 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 March 25, 1898, "Three Big Derricks / On Captain Scott's dock there are being put together three huge timber derricks for use on Gull Island. They were contracted for by Major Leach of the engineers' corps."; notice referring to materials and equipment for constructing Fort Michie, Great Gull Island, NY, 1898; see related photographs 2008.28.10.37-45.

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