Tugboat RICHMOND ashore near Newport, RI, February 1907

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, RI, Newport
1907-02
paper
3--3/4 x 4-3/4 in.

Gelatin silver print mounted on ledger paper in photograph album 2008.28.10 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten on ledger page "Tug / Richmond / at / Newport / time of / Capt Scotts / death"; bow view of tugboat RICHMOND ashore near Newport, RI, February 1907, floating derrick in background; see also Mystic Seaport, G.W. Blunt White Library, Records of T.A. Scott Company, Inc. (Coll. 1), C Series, Box 4, Folder 10(C25) - Papers, including bills and a memorandum of services rendered the tug RICHMOND of New York, N.Y., which sank near Newport, R.I., on Feb. 8, 1907.; 1907 Apr 12; see duplicate postcard photograph 2014.49.9838.

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