Damaged hull of steamship GEORGE W. CLYDE off Bay Ridge, Long Island, NY, March 1896

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Long Island, Bay Ridge
1896-03
paper
4-3/4 x 6-5/8 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.2 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten on album page "Hole in S.S. 'G.W. Clyde"; men aboard steamship GEORGE W. CLYDE and view of damaged hull, probably off Bay Ridge, Long Island, NY, March 1896; see related photographs 1964.660.66 and 2008.28.2.190-197; see New York Times article March 1, 1896, for account of marine accidents in fog.

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