Derrick RELIANCE lifting Lackawanna Valley Railroad locomotive after accident, Jersey City, NJ, September 1894

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NJ, Jersey City, Communipaw
1894-09
paper
4-7/8 x 6-7/8 in.

Gelatin silver print, mounted on cloth, in photograph album 2008.28.2 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten on album page "Dk 'Reliance lifting L.V.R.R. Loco out of Float slip Communipaw/ Sept 1894"; printed in negative lower left "375"; men working on pipes, possibly to pump out Lackawanna Valley Railroad locomotive, Communipaw section of Jersey City, NY; see related photographs 2008.28.2.43-46.

2008.28.2.45