Salvage schooner (?) JOHN W. CHITTENDEN and probably British steamship ACARA off Jones Inlet, Long Island, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Long Island, Jones Inlet
1902-03-01
paper
4-5/8 x 6-3/8 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.4 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower left "1100"; stern view of salvage schooner (?) JOHN W. CHITTENDEN of NY seen through a wreck, probably British steamship ACARA
(bt. 1898, steel); broken in two off Jones Inlet, Long Island, March 1, 1902; Shanghai to NY; cargo of tea, matting, wood, tin saved and brought to NY and sold; from original negative 1964.660.221; see related photographs 2008.28.4.527-537; see accession file for account of wreck.
2008.28.4.537