Lighter SMELTON with load of cotton on fire, Erie Basin Breakwater, after towed from Lehigh Valley RR Pier B., Jersey City, March 19, 1909

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Brooklyn, Erie Basin
1909-03-19
paper
4 x 6 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 1964.519, Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower left "2798", and at top "Cotton Lighter 'Smelton' on fire at Erie Basin Breakwater / after being towed from Lehigh Valley RR P.B. JC.", and at bottom "Ltr. 'Smelton' with load cotton on fire / at Erie Bsn."; lighter SMELTON with load of cotton on fire at Erie Basin Breakwater after being towed from Lehigh Valley Railroad Pier B., Jersey City, March 19, 1909; lighter WM. E. CHAPMAN visible; see related photographs 1964.519.458-465.

1964.519.458