Lighter HELEN F. ROBBINS with her load of burning cotton, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, December 1891

cyanotype

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Brooklyn, Erie Basin
1891-12
paper
4-1/2 x 6-3/8 in.

Cyanotype in photograph album 2008.28.1; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation Collection; handwritten on album page in ink "No 6" and "Lighter 'Helen F. Robins' [sic]/ with load of burning cotton on/ being kept under Control by fire pump/ on Scow No 13 at Erie Basin."; HELEN F. ROBBINS and Scow No. 13 at wharf, ship in back at wharf, December 1891; see related photograph 2008.28.1.2.

2008.28.1.8