Steamship SARATOGA, Schoonmaker-Conners Co. barge? alongside; probably at Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, Brooklyn, NY, July 1917

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Brooklyn
1917-07
paper
3-1/4 x 5-1/2 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "6005", and on album page "S/S. SARATOGA."; bow view of steamship SARATOGA, Schoonmaker-Conners Co. barge? alongside; probably at Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, Brooklyn, NY, after being towed from Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, July 1917, after rammed by steamship PANAMA; from original negative 1964.660.1917; see related photographs 2008.28.8.21-29, 67-73; see accession file for account of accident.

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