Floating derrick MONARCH carrying coal from Manhattan to Hoboken, NJ, circa 1896

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, Hudson River
1896
paper
4-1/2 x 6-1/2 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.2 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten on album page "'Monarch' carrying coal Pockett from 39th St. N.R. to Hoboken"; floating derrick MONARCH carrying coal from 39th Street, Manhattan, to Hoboken, NJ; Pocahontas Coal Company coal pocket in background; probably 1896; see related photograph 2008.28.2.210.

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