"On Great Gull and Plum / Description of Government Work Now in / Progress---Impregnable Fortifications", newspaper clipping, April 25, 1898

newspaper clipping

EPHEMERA
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Suffolk County, Great Gull Island; USA, NY, Plum Island
1898-04-25
paper
11 x 4-1/2 in.

Newspaper clipping from "Brooklyn Daily Eagle", April 25, 1898, mounted on ledger paper in photograph album 2008.28.10 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; "On Great Gull and Plum / Description of Government Work Now in / Progress---Impregnable Fortifications"; article about building Fort Michie on Great Gull Island, NY, and Fort Terry on Plum Island, NY, and T.A. Scott Company tugboats and barges bringing gravel, sand, etc; see related objects 2008.28.10.284-289.


2008.28.10.284

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