"WRECK OF THE METIS. Watch Hill Beach, Aug. 30, 1872."
stereograph
PHOTOGRAPHSAyer, E.
USA: Rhode Island: Watch Hill
August 30, 1872
3.44 x 7.00 x 0
Stereograph, albumen print, mounted on yellow card, rounded corners; showing wreckage littering beach east of Watch Hill after the collision of the METIS and the schooner NELLIE CUSHING; spectators sit on a pontoon life raft among the debris; printed lower left "E. Ayer, Norwich, Conn." and lower right "WRECK OF THE METIS. Watch Hill Beach, Aug. 30, 1872."
1981.76.19