"LEWISTON WENT ASHORE / Sick Soldiers Taken on a Lighter from Point Judith to Newport", 1898

newspaper clipping

EPHEMERA
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, RI, Point Judith
1898-09-06
paper
9-1/4 x 4-1/2 in.

Newspaper clipping mounted on ledger paper in photograph album 2008.28.10 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; dated in pencil Sept 6, 1898, "LEWISTON WENT ASHORE / Sick Soldiers Taken on a Lighter from Point Judith to Newport."; account of sidewheel steamer LEWISTON running aground off Point Judith, RI, September 1898; see related photographs 2008.28.10.524-529.


2008.28.10.526

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