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Loomis, Alfred
1951
1980.79.1335
View Two men with over-turned dory
photo-engraving
Burns, Milton J.
before 1933
2001.12.13
View S.S. NICHOLAS CUNEO ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, February 4, 1913
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-02-04
1964.660.990
View S.S. NICHOLAS CUNEO ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, February 4, 1913
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-02-04
1964.660.1030
View Starboard view of sunken steamer TOURIST of New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1230
View Starboard view of sunken steamer TOURIST of New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1231
View Men working over half submerged barge or scow
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.468
View Charred boat equipment from steamboat TREMONT
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1904-02-08
1964.660.497
View Floating derricks raising submerged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.504
View Tug HUSTLER working over sunken sailing vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.523
View Barge INDEPENDENT being pumped out
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1899-04
1964.660.77
View Lighter HENRY SEYMOUR working over unidentified capsized steamship
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.80
View Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-02
1964.660.581
View S.S. PRINZESS IRENE, starboard view, ashore at Fire Island Beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-06
1964.660.592
View S.S. PRINZESS IRENE, starboard view, ashore at Fire Island Beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-06
1964.660.595
View Taylor Dredging Co. scow H.H. 16 ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-23
1964.660.611
View Taylor Dredging Co. scow H.H. 16 ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-23
1964.660.614
View Lifting and pumping S. S. LEONA, East River, New York, October 19, 1899
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1899-10-19
1964.660.84
View S.S. MAIN, flooded after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.102
View Derrick raising tug McCALDIN BROS. after sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-02
1964.660.623
View Port view of sidewheel steamer CENTRAL HUDSON ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-23
1964.660.640
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, port bow view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.654
View Damaged wharf and bow of CITY OF FALL RIVER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1883
1964.660.131
View Unidentified salvage operation in harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.138
View Raising ferry boat NORTHFIELD, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.148
View Raising of ferry boat NORTHFIELD, East River, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.150
View US Army transport INGALLS capsized on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.154
View Sidewheel steamer JOHN SYLVESTER aground
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-08-04
1964.660.723
View British steamship ACARA ashore off Long Island, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-03-01
1964.660.219
View Tug OSCEOLA stranded on breakwater, Piermont, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.300
View Tug OSCEOLA stranded on breakwater at Piermont, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.301
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising dredge BALTIC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.329
View Railroad car float #36 on rocks, Sunken Meadow, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.339
View Railroad car float #36 on rocks at Sunken Meadow, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.340
View S. S. JOSE sunk after fire on Pier 8, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.827
View Port view of sinking tug J. H. WILLIAMS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1061
View Dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2 sunk off 42nd Street, Brooklyn, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-10
1964.660.344
View Spar in icy water around unidentified submerged wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.356
View Raising sunken schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.360
View Floating derricks raising sunken schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.362
View Floating derricks raising schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.363
View Damaged hull of unidentified vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.854
View View of damaged side of vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1098
View S. S. BRIGHTON ashore, Atlantic City, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-03-31
1964.660.410
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising unidentified tugboat, sidewheel steamer in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12-11
1964.660.1120
View Salvage of sunken vessel GRECIAN, hoisting wood box
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1125
View Steam yacht aground, assisted by tugboats
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.458
View Stern view of steam yacht aground, with tugs
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.460
View Close-up of unidentified damage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.912
View Pontoons raising sunken vessel, possibly S.S. JOSE, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.913
View Derrick COMMISSIONER raising S.S. NANTUCKET, September 2, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.921
View S.S. NANTUCKET capsized, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.922
View Half raised wreck of S.S. DUNHOLME, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.929
View Floating derricks CAPITOL and COLLEGIAN raising sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1161
View Pumping out S.S. DUNHOLME, sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-11-17
1964.660.944
View Wrecked DUNHOLME, bow view, sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.946
View S.S. TURRIALBA, port view, ashore, Jersey beach, December 24, 1912.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-12-24
1964.660.954
View S. S. TURRIALBA ashore at New Jersey coast, December 24, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.959
View S.S. LOUISIANE, starboard bow view, ashore Sombrero Reef, Florida
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-11
1964.660.976
View Sunken tug JAMES BROS.(?) sunk in icy waters, derrick CENTURY in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1184
View Sunken tug PETER L. COLON, horse-drawn carts on wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1186
View Tug sunk in icy waters at wharf, floating derrick CENTURY at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1190
View Sunken dredge ARIUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1277
View Starboard view of steamer MOHAWK of Boston, Eastern Steamship Co., wrecked
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2576
View Deck of damaged barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2604
View Sunken gravel barge under bridge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2902
View Raising of S.S. SAGUA, bow view, S.S. MOUNT CLINTON at right, Nicaragua, November 15, 1923
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-11-15
1964.660.2655
View Unidentified steamship, port view, stranded on beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2660
View Unidentified sunken vessel at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Schaefer, Chas. & Son
1964.660.1322
View Sinking tugboat EDW. C. MURRAY, bow view, at Jay Street Terminal, Brooklyn, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1357
View Two copy photographs, salvage operation, one a sunken vessel, the other, deck of vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3526
View Two copy photos on one plate, S. S. BALABAC wreck, #4 looking forward and #1 from beach near Mucurapo Pt., January 1923
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-01-01
1964.660.2696
View View looking toward port bow of unidentified sunken steamship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1394
View Salvage of tug TRANSFER NO. 5 of New Haven, view of damaged hull
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3030
View Sunken vessel with winter cover on raised ?
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3038
View Capsized vessel, possibly in sunken floating dry dock, stern view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2711
View Sunken steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM, starboard view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1443
View Pumping out steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM, tug CRESCENT at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1446
View Pumping out steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1448
View Pumping out steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1449
View Sunken dredge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3054
View Salvage operation, floating derrick raising sunken vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3208
View Damaged ferry PHHILADELPHIA, seen from dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2750
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2302
View Port stern view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2314
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2319
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2322
View Port view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2324
View Port bow view of S.S. LENAPE, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2328
View Capsized railroad barge No. 4
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1749
View Floating derricks MONARCH and CENTURY raising CITY OF STAMFORD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1768
View Salvage of steamship SAGUA, deck damage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1779
View Unidentified sunken tugboat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1786
View Sunken tugboat GLENVILLE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1804
View Tug TALISMAN sunk at dock; aft deck looking forward
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2443
View Tug TALISMAN sunk at dock, bow view, raised
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2444
View Tug TALISMAN sunk at dock, aft deck, looking forward
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2446
View Caved-in port bow of vessel (wreck)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2449
View Wharf activity, barge EASTMAN alist
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1565
View Sunken ferry HAMILTON, at wharf, ferry NEW YORK in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1832
View Deck of unidentified vessel, awash
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1837
View S.S. ANDREE sunk in harbor, starboard view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2470
View Bow view of sinking of small snow-covered steamboat
gelatin glass negative
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.660.1585
View Bow view of tugboat ELI B. CONINE tied to barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1882
View Hoisting part of damaged vessel on deck of derrick CENTURY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2525
View Salvage of sunken steamer ELEANOR F. PECK at wharf, floating derrick EDGAR
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1624
View Salvage of sunken steamer ELEANOR F. PECK, at wharf, derrick EDGAR, barge WANDERG...
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1625
View Salvage of sunken steamer ELEANOR F. PECK at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1626
View Bow view of sunken tug IRA M. HEDGES
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1961
View Lighter EUGENE G. from New York, capsized at dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1993
View Port view of unidentified steamship aground near beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1996
View Bow view of unidentified steamship aground near beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2005
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918
1964.660.2054
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2066
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2089
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2091
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2095
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2101
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, August 27, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-08-27
1964.660.2103
View Unidentified capsized vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2153
View Two tugboats aground and capsized
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2227
View Bow view of S.S. LENAPE, aground at Clyde Line Pier 36
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2296
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, bow view, sunken, lighter CASCADE at left
gelatin glass negative
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works
1964.660.1636
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, view of deck, awash
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1641
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, view of deck awash
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1643
View U.S. Army Transport MCPHERSON ashore at Matanzas, Cuba, February-July, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-02 to 1901-07
2008.28.4.318
View Ferry NORTHFIELD, sunk at Pier 10, East River, New York, NY, by collision with ferry MAUCH CHUCK, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.331
View U.S. Army Transport INGALLS capsized and sunk on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.345
View U.S. Army Transport INGALLS capsized and sunk on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.350
View U.S. Army Transport INGALLS capsized and sunk on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.351
View Central Railroad of New Jersey ferry ELIZABETH after fire at Jersey City and sunk near Bedloe's Island, New York, NY, November 24, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-11-24
2008.28.4.378
View Unloading ship FLOTTBEK ashore at Long Branch, NJ, November 23, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-11-23
2008.28.4.390
View Damage to hull of ferry COLLEGE POINT wrecked near North Brother Island, Bronx, New York, December 13, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-13
2008.28.4.400
View Deck view, pumping out ferry COLLEGE POINT wrecked near North Brother Island, Bronx, New York, December 13, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-13
2008.28.4.402
View Derrick RELIANCE lifting N.Y., N.H. & H. Railroad cars from railroad car float which ran ashore at Oak Point, NY, January 26, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-01-26
2008.28.4.407
View Steamer NORUMBEGA aground at Clark's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, August 1912
real photo postcard
1912-08
2014.49.9348
View Steamer NORUMBEGA aground at Clark's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, August 13, 1912
real photo postcard
1912-08
2014.49.9354
View Steamer NORUMBEGA aground at Clark's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, August 1912
real photo postcard
T.A. Scott Company
1912-08
2014.49.9356
View Steamer NORUMBEGA aground at Clark's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, August 1912
real photo postcard
T.A. Scott Company
1912-08
2014.49.9357
View Steamer NORUMBEGA stranded at Clarks Point, Southwest Harbor, ME, August 1912
real photo postcard
1912-08
2014.49.9359
View Schooner EMMA SOUTHARD aground at Duck Island, CT, August 1913, later sank in Gardners Bay, NY May 27, 1914
gelatin silver print
T.A. Scott Company
1913-08
1965.336
View Steamship SAALE after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.117
View Steamship ST. PAUL ashore Long Branch, NJ, January 25 - Febryary 3, 1896
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1896-01-25 thru 1896-02-03
2008.28.3.13
View Steamship HERO ashore at Colon, Colombia, December 31, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-31
2008.28.4.419
View Steamship CAVOUR stranded at Long Beach, NY, January 31, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-01-31
2008.28.4.426
View Deck view of ice-covered ship L. SCHEPP stranded off Long Beach, Long Island, NY, February 3, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-02-03
2008.28.4.429
View Steamer EMELINE ashore, Catskill Creek, NY, October 5, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-10-05
2008.28.1.115
View Steamer EMELINE ashore, Catskill Creek, NY, October 5, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-10-05
2008.28.1.117
View Steamer EMELINE ashore, Catskill Creek, NY, October 5, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-10-05
2008.28.1.126
View Derrick RELIANCE with pilot schooner DAVID CARLL in slings after being raised, Stapleton, Staten Island, NY, September 9?, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-02-9
2008.28.1.137
View Danish barkentine BERTHA stranded at Elberon, NJ, May 16, 1905
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1905-05-16
1964.521.125
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 27, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-27
2008.28.3.150
View US Army Transport RAWLINS on fire and sunk at Pier 22, Brooklyn, NY, April 10, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-10
2008.28.3.152
View US Army Transport INGALLS capsized and sunk on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.3.171
View US Army Transport INGALLS capsized on dry-dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.3.172
View Coal Elevator CLARK NO. 2 capsized off Shooter's Island, NY, June 24, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-24
2008.28.3.177
View Coal Elevator CLARK NO. 2 capsized off Shooter's Island, NY, June 24, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-24
2008.28.3.178
View Ship COM. T.H. ALLEN on fire off Sandy Hook, NJ, July 18, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-18
2008.28.3.181
View Ferry ELIZABETH burned at Jersey City and sunk on flats near Bedloe's Island, NY, November 24, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-11-24
2008.28.3.187
View Bark CRIFFEL afire and sunk at Pier 12, East River, New York, October 9, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-10-09
2008.28.3.190
View Bark CRIFFEL afire and sunk at Pier 12, East River, New York, October 9, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-10-09
2008.28.3.191
View Coal schooner P.J. CARLETON, sunk about 6500 feet southwest from Romer Lighthouse, March 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03
2008.28.4.476
View Probably either coal schooner RINGLEADER or coal barge P.J. CARLETON, sunk on Flynn's Knoll, New York Bay, March 5, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-05
2008.28.4.481
View British steamship ACARA aground off Jones Inlet, Long Island, NY, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.482
View Deck awash, probably British steamship ACARA aground off Jones Inlet, Long Island, NY, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.494
View Steamship BRITISH QUEEN listing after fire at Hoboken, NJ, March 19, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-09
2008.28.4.501
View Probably fire damage at Hoboken, NJ, March 19, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-09
2008.28.4.504
View Ferry F.P. JAMES on the flats at Riker's Island, NY, March 31, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-03-31
2008.28.1.145
View Derrick RELIANCE raising steam lighter LIZZIE M. CONKLIN, Elizabethport, NJ, December 11, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-12-11
2008.28.1.156
View Ferry F.P. JAMES sunk at Hallett's Cove, Astoria, Queens, NY, March 30, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-03-30
2008.28.1.157
View Schooner ELIZA A. ANDERSON in chains alongside derrick RELIANCE, July 20, 1893
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-07-20
2008.28.1.185
View Steamship CEARENSE ashore at Seaside Park, NJ, March 16, 1906
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1906-3-16
1964.521.131
View Steamboat SARATOGA sunk in Hudson River near Barrytown, NY, October 13, 1906
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1906-10-13
1964.521.141
View British freighter GOWANBURN ashore at Blue Point, Long Island, NY, March 20, 1907
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-03-20
1964.521.147
View Steamboat SAGAMORE ashore at Manursing Island, NY, Long Island, Sound, April 9, 1907
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-04-09
1964.521.151
View Coal schooner FLORENCE RUSSELL sunk near City Island, NY, September 7, 1907
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-09-07
1964.521.154
View Derrick CENTURY recovering 2 locomotives at collapsed Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad float bridge, circa 1908
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1908
1964.521.171
View Pennsylvania ferry NEW BRUNSWICK burned off Communipaw Coal Pier, NJ, January 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-01
2008.28.3.31
View Steamboat CATSKILL raised after sinking in Hudson River, September 15, 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1897-09
2008.28.3.39
View Schooner ANDERSON sunk off Guilford, Connecticut
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.3.4
View Derrick MONARCH hoisting Central Railroad of New Jersey car lost overboard at drawbridge, Newark Bay, NJ, April 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-04-16
2008.28.4.514
View Floating derrick MONARCH carrying floating grain elevator CERES to coal docks, Jersey City, NJ, August 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-08
2008.28.4.52
View Deck awash, British steamship ACARA broken in two off Jones Inlet, Long Island, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.535
View Submerged 3-masted schooner and salvage vessel, circa 1903
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1903
2008.28.4.540
View Floating derrick MONARCH? and tugboat GEORGE L. GARLICK raising sunken vessel, probably New York Harbor, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.556
View Steam yacht LUCILLE stranded on Governors Island, New York, NY, July 3, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-07-03
2008.28.4.558
View Lighter HUSTLER unloading freight from sunk CITY OF NORWALK, Blackwells Island, NY, March 30, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-30
2008.28.1.20
View Barge MILTON sunk at Hell Gate, New York, NY, November 23, 1893
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-11-23
2008.28.1.206
View Steamer RIVER BELLE aground, Hudson River near Peekskill, NY, 1894
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894
2008.28.1.207
View Steamship LA CHAMPAGNE aground at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, NY, May 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-05
2008.28.1.210
View Steamer CITY OF NORWALK in dry dock, East River, New York, NY, April 3, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-04-03
2008.28.1.32
View Tugboat BERTHA being raised by derrick RELIANCE at the Battery, New York, NY, December 1891
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1891-12
2008.28.1.4
View 3-Masted schooner WILLIAM H. OLER aground off Eatons Neck, Long Island, NY, November 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-11
2008.28.1.44
View Ocean liner UNITED STATES sunk in channel near Sandy Hook, NJ, April 16, 1908
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1908-04-16
1964.521.177
View Derrick MONARCH raising Canal boat EUREKA sunk at Pier 42, New York, October 27, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-10-27
1964.521.19
View Tugboat JOHN H. HUGHES and barge MABEL L. PHILLIPS ashore at Lloyds Neck, Long Island, NY, November 26, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-11-26
1964.521.30
View Dredge BALTIC sunk on Dan Baker Shoal, Delaware Bay, December 5, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-12-05
1964.521.36
View Salvage vessels around wreck of USS MAINE, Havana, Cuba, February 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-02
2008.28.3.58
View Pumps at work on Steamship GERMANIC, Hudson River, New York, February 11, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02-11
2008.28.3.87
View Yacht WANDA sunk on Crane's Dry Dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, October 25, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-25
2008.28.3.91
View Schooner PENOKEE sunk below Romer Shoal, September 14, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-09-14
2008.28.3.94
View Floating derrick CENTURY at unidentified salvage operation at wharf; circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.564
View Unidentified salvage operation at wharf; circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.565
View Raising sunk railroad engine, circa 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1910
2008.28.4.595
View Salvage operation, probably pumping out after raising sunk railroad engine, circa 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1910
2008.28.4.599
View German bark DR. SIEGERT capsized at wharf, Brooklyn, NY, July 27, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-07-27
2008.28.1.67
View Baltimore & Ohio Railroad drill engine accident, Brooklyn, NY, March 21, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-21
2008.28.1.68
View New York Central Lighterage Company barge No. 14, sunk, Brooklyn, NY, September 23, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-23
2008.28.1.71
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.84
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.85
View Derrick RELIANCE hoisting drowned cattle from sunk railroad car, Queens, NY, circa 1895
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1895
2008.28.1.9
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.92
View Dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2 sunk off 42nd Street Brooklyn, NY, December 10, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-12-10
1964.521.41
View Dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2 sunk off 42nd Street Brooklyn, NY, December 10, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-12-10
1964.521.43
View Barge THOMAS L. PARKER sunk off Weehawken, NJ, December 18, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-12-18
1964.521.47
View Tugboat NEW YORK CENTRAL NO. 22 on the rocks at Sunken Meadow, Long Island, NY, February 5, 1903
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1903-02-05
1964.521.51
View Schooner JOHN F. KRANZ ashore at Mantoloking, NJ, March 21, 1903
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1903-03-21
1964.521.56
View Steamship ACARA ashore off Jones Inlet, Long Island, NY, March 1, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
1964.521.6
View New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad CAR FLOAT #3 ashore on North Brother Island, Bronx, NY, April 5, 1903
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1903-04-05
1964.521.63
View Bark ANGELA E. MARIA burned at Constable Hook, Bayonne, NJ, July 30, 1903
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1903-07-30
1964.521.68
View Brooklyn Navy Yard, after collision of ferry CHICAGO and steamship AUGUSTA, October 31, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-31
2008.28.3.98
View Derrick barge EDGAR assisting 3-masted schooner VALKYRIE run ashore near Stepping Stone Light, Long Island Sound, February 20, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-02-20
2008.28.4.62
View Floating derrick RELIANCE hoisting sunk railroad cars at wharf, probably New York, NY, circa 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1895
2008.28.4.72
View Tugboat MERCY B. sunk off Glen Island, NY, March 14, 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1904-03-14
1964.521.84
View Steamship BOSTON CITY sunk off South West Spit, January 31, 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1904-01-31
1964.521.86
View Damaged hull of fishing schooner RHODE ISLAND after collision, San Martins Island, Mexico, December 26, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-12-26
1962.1249.114
View Shell Oil barge MARTINEZ sunk at Raccoon Straits, San Francisco Bay, California, May, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.135
View Tanker TAMIAHUA aground near Pigeon Point, California, 1930
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1930
1962.1249.148
View Tanker TAMIAHUA ashore at Pigeon Point, California, 1930
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1930
1962.1249.30
View Salvage tugboat sunk at Bethlehem Shipbuilding dock, San Pedro, California, July 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-07
1962.1249.39
View Tanker FRANK H. BUCK ashore at Point Pinos, deck view, Monterey County, California, May 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-03 through 1924-05-17
1962.1249.4
View Salvage workers on dock with equipment, Bethlehem Shipbuilding dock, San Pedro, California, July 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-07
1962.1249.40
View Launch ELCO wrecked, probably Ventura, California, July 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-07
1962.1249.56
View USN Destroyers CHAUNCEY and WOODBURY wrecked near Santa Barbara, California, September 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-09
1962.1249.75
View Salvaged material from USN destroyers wrecked near Santa Barbara, CAlifronia, September 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-09
1962.1249.79
View Steamship TAMIAHUA, stranded, probably Pigeon Point, California, 1930
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1930
1962.1249.87
View Tugboats assisting steamship SAALE after fire at Hoboken, NJ, 1900
real photo postcard
Druck & Vertrieb
1900
2014.49.9849
View Debris on deck of DREDGE NO. 5 sunk after boiler explosion, circa 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1910
1964.518.7
View Sidewheel steamer IROQUOIS ashore
platinum print
T.A. Scott Company
1963.1506
View Damaged hull, (presumably) of steamer PERSEUS after sinking at College Point, Queens, New York, September 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-09
1964.518.775
View Floating derrick hoisting crane from DREDGE NO. 5 sunk after boiler explosion, circa 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1910
1964.518.8
View Steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02-11
2008.28.4.10
View Steamship GATE CITY stranded on beach near Moriches, Long island, NY, circa February 8, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-08
2008.28.4.154
View Cotton bales on beach near Moriches, Long Island, New York, circa February 8, 1900, after wreck of steamship GATE CITY
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-08
2008.28.4.157
View Ferry CHICAGO in dry dock at Brooklyn Navy Yard, after collision with steamship AUGUSTA on October 31, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899
2008.28.4.162
View Mallory Line steamship LEONA sunk at Pier 20, East River, New York, October 19, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-19
2008.28.4.165
View Tugboat MARSTON sunk in canal?, spectators on shore, 1917-1930
real photo postcard, white border
1917-1930
2014.49.10000
View Pumping out steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02
2008.28.4.17
View Raising 3-masted schooner PENOKEE (probably), Romer Shoal (NY & NJ), September 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-09
2008.28.4.178
View Probably salvage of steamship LASSELL after being sunk by S.S. Friesland, December 5, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-12-5
2008.28.4.182
View Steamship GATE CITY, breaking up near Moriches, NY, February, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02
2008.28.4.202
View German passenger liner KAISER WILHELM DER GROSSE towed away from pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.208
View Deck view of steamship MAIN destroyed by fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30 - 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.218
View Tugboat HUSTLER and derrick MONARCH working over S.S. BREMEN on Weehawken Banks after fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.219
View Steamship BREMEN partially submerged after fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.224
View Steamships MAIN and BREMEN and salvage vessels after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.234
View Hoboken, New Jersey, waterfront after pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.239
View Steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02
2008.28.4.24
View Ferry PLAINFIELD burned and sunk off Ellis Island, New York Bay, September 14, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-09-14
2008.28.4.248
View Wreck and fire, sunk sidewheel steamer with tugboats, probably Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, January 9, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-01-09
2008.28.4.263
View Tugboat CHARLES F. ALLEN stranded on beach at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York, NY, May 24, 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1910-05-24
1964.518.26
View 5-Masted schooner NATHANIEL T. PALMER stranded at Beach Haven, NJ, March 11, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-11
2008.28.4.283
View 5-Masted schooner NATHANIEL T. PALMER stranded at Beach Haven, NJ, March 11, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-11
2008.28.4.284
View 5-Masted schooner NATHANIEL T. PALMER stranded at Beach Haven, NJ, March 11, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-11
2008.28.4.287
View Lighter RAYMOND and derrick MONARCH raising steamboat POUGHKEEPSIE after running ashore in Hudson River, Stony Point, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-21
2008.28.4.289
View Steamboat POUGHKEEPSIE after running ashore in Hudson River, Stony Point, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-21
2008.28.4.292
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 27, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-27
2008.28.4.297
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 27, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-27
2008.28.4.301
View British steamship GAELIC PRINCE, October 10, 1919, after rammed by US Army Transport ANTIGONE in Ambrose Channel
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-10-10
2008.28.8.545
View Steamboat (tugboat?) INVINCIBLE of New York raised after sinking, probably New York Harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.557
View Steamship aground
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.39
View Floating derrick, probably CENTURY, raising unidentified vessel
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.47
View American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01
2008.28.8.634
View Floating derricks alongside American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01
2008.28.8.643
View Steam yacht GLOUCESTER sunk at marine basin, Brooklyn, NY, February 17, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-02-17
2008.28.8.654
View Central Railroad of New Jersey steam lighter #27, sunk at Yonkers, NY, January 29, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01-29
2008.28.8.662
View Floating derricks raising tugboat AUGUSTINE sunk at McWilliams Dry Dock Co., Staten Island, NY, January 30, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01-30
2008.28.8.667
View Floating derrick pumping out unidentified vessel
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.52
View Steamship? ALASKAN? of New York aground off coast
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.72
View Clyde Line steamship LENAPE sunk at Pier 36, Hudson River, New York City, October 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-10
2008.28.6.97
View Steamer MAINE aground in Long Island Sound off Execution Light, February 11, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-02-11
2008.28.8.681
View Floating derricks raising steamship LORD DUFFERIN, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919
2008.28.8.684
View Pumping out Munson Line steamship MOCCASIN sunk at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-03
2008.28.8.691
View Vessels assisting Munson Line steamship MOCCASIN sunk at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-03
2008.28.8.692
View Steamship LAKE DEVAL stranded after running aground in the fog off beach near Southampton, Long Island, NY, March 15, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-03-15
2008.28.8.696
View Dredge EUGENE sunk at Governors Island, NY, March 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-03
2008.28.8.715
View Steamship BERMUDEZ partially raised after sinking at Crane's Dry Dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 16-20, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-03-16
2008.28.8.1006
View Extinguishing fire aboard Norwegian steamship HALLFRIED, Pier 5, Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, NY, April 19, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-04-19
2008.28.8.739
View Extinguishing fire aboard Norwegian steamship HALLFRIED, Pier 5, Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, NY, April 19, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-04-19
2008.28.8.743
View Barge sunk in harbor, probably New York City area, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.752
View Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. barge NAPOLEON sunk in harbor, probably New York City area, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.753
View 3 discs? displayed on printed paper supported by 2 chairs, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.763
View Floating derricks raising capsized vessel, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.767
View Unidentified vessel in dry dock
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.517.19
View Motorship MAGDALENA ashore on Klein Curacao (Little Curacao), Netherlands Antilles, February 1934 (refloated May 28, 1934)
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1934-02
1964.517.2
View Steamship MORRO CASTLE ashore at Asbury Park, NJ, September 1934
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Cole & Co.
1934-09
1964.517.20
View Floating derrick raising submarine S-48 sunk off Penfield Reef, Fairfield County, CT, Long Island Sound, December 7, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-12-07
1964.517.30
View Probably tanker F.H. BUCK on the rocks at Point Pinos, Monterey Bay, CA
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.517.33
View Steamship FLORIDA in dry dock with bow removed, March? 23, 1909
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1909-03-23
1964.517.39
View Unidentified damaged steamship
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.517.4
View Tugboat sunk at wharf, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1064
View Tanker JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER at Robins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, 1920, after being aground near Tampico, Mexico, December 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920
2008.28.8.811
View C.L. Taylor & Co., Dredge No. 1 sunk, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.819
View Equipment on dredge WASHINGTON, sunk at Charleston, SC, October 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10
2008.28.8.825
View Moran tugboat (possibly JULIA C. MORAN) sunk at railroad wharf, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1106
View Derelict barge at wharf, probably Brooklyn, NY, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1109
View Salvage vessel RELIEF at dock, probably involved with salvage of steamship ARGONNE, Morant Cays, Jamaica, July 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-07
2008.28.8.84
View Pumping out steamship KERSHAW raised after capsizing at wharf, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10-15
2008.28.8.849
View Houseboat? sunk near shore, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.856
View Steamer HERMAN WINTER sunk at Pier 11, Hudson River, New York, NY, October 21, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-10-21
1964.520.1
View Floating derricks MONARCH and WILL raising sidewheel steamer CATSKILL sunk in Hudson River, September 15, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-09-15
1964.520.101
View Steamship LA CHAMPAGNE aground at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, NY, May 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-05
1964.520.104
View Floating derricks MONARCH and WILL raising sidewheel steamer CATSKILL sunk in Hudson River, September 15, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-09-15
1964.520.110
View Clyde Line steamship ONEIDA sunk beside Pier 29, East River, New York, NY, next to Brooklyn Bridge, September 21, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-09-21
1964.520.116
View Steamboat CATSKILL being towed, after sinking in Hudson River, NY, September 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-09
1964.520.123
View Lighter HATTIE BELL? ashore on beach, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1180
View Salvage vessels raising steamer MINNESOTA sunk in Hell Gate, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.131
View Steamer ULSTER after sinking in Hudson River, near Cornwall, NY, November 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-11
1964.520.149
View Steamship THURINGIA ashore at Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, West Indies, after 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
after 1922
1964.520.17
View 3-Masted schooner LEORA M. THURLOW stranded after gale at Goshen Point, New London County, CT, February 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1912-02
1964.557
View Tugboats towing steamer MINNESOTA, raised after sinking in Hell Gate, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.137
View View of propeller, rudder, and rudder of tugboat ERIN in dry dock, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.151
View Norwegian bark SORSTAD, listing in icy water at wharf, probably after being raised after rammed by tugboat, January 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-01
2008.28.8.159
View Tugboats assisting Norwegian bark SORSTAD, listing in icy water at wharf, probably after being raised after rammed by tugboat, January 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-01
2008.28.8.160
View Norwegian bark SORSTAD partially raised in icy harbor after rammed by tugboat, January 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-01
2008.28.8.165
View Floating derrick CHIEF assisting steamer CHELSEA sunk in icy water, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.167
View Unidentified sunk vessel, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.177
View Floating derrick WILL and heavily damaged vessel at wharf, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.179
View C.L. Taylor & Co., Dredge No. 1 sunk, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.929
View Deck of unidentified vessel, probably in New York harbor, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.941
View Tugboat IMMIGRANT and lighter ELLER sunk off Ellis Island, New York Bay, January 24, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-01-24
2008.28.8.957
View Floating derrick ADVANCE sunk at Yonkers, NY, January 21, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-01-21
2008.28.8.967
View Floating derrick MONARCH probably raising steamboat ERICSSON sunk in Delaware River, February 26, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-02-16
1964.520.182
View Floating derrick raising steamboat ERIKSSON sunk in Delaware River, February 26, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-02
1964.520.201
View Ship TROOP stranded on beach near Forge River Lifesaving Station (Long Island, NY), May 24, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-24
1964.520.202
View Ship TROOP stranded on beach near Forge River Lifesaving Station, Long Island, NY, May 24, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-24
1964.520.205
View Lighter HUSTLER and other vessels assisting steamer CITY OF WORCESTER partly submerged in Thames River, New London, CT, May 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05
1964.520.206
View Steamer CITY OF WORCESTER partly submerged in Thames River, New London, CT, May 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-29
1964.520.209
View Deck view of damaged vessel in dry dock, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.183
View Men inspecting damaged hull, probably lighter JAMES LOGAN in dry dock, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.189
View Unidentified salvage operation in harbor, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.206
View Steamship aground off beach, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.213
View Steamship aground off beach, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.214
View Floating derrick CHIEF and lighter JOHN W. CHITTENDEN assisting sunk troop ship SARATOGA, probably at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, July 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-07
2008.28.8.22
View Barge NEW JERSEY sunk at Pier 44 in East River, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.98
View Schooner FLORENCE sunk, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.250
View Interior of steamship HUTTONWOOD after explosion in hold on August 6, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-08-06
2008.28.8.233
View Floating derricks, including MONARCH, raising steamship ST. PAUL sunk at wharf, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.258
View American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, April 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-04-26
2008.28.8.276
View Sidewheel steamer ANGLER off coast, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.278
View Stranded barge?, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.290
View Floating derrick RELIANCE raising Lehigh Valley Railroad sunk grain cars, January 10, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-01-10
1964.520.303
View Barge E.W. STETSON ashore off Minor Hill, Long Island, November 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-11
1964.520.307
View Floating derrick raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, April 26, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.281
View Apparatus for raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL June 2, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-06-02
2008.28.8.288
View Apparatus for raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL June 2, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-06-02
2008.28.8.289
View Tugboat ELI B. CONINE sunk off Wards Island, Hell Gate, New York, August 23, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-08-23
2008.28.8.30
View Pumping out American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.315
View Tugboat ELI B. CONINE sunk off Wards Island, Hell Gate, New York, August 23, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-08-23
2008.28.8.32
View Pumping out American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.324
View Pumping out American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.327
View Barge SATANELLA stranded at Lloyd Neck, NY, Long Island Sound, February 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-02
1964.520.40
View Tugboat GEORGE L. GARLICK in chains of floating derrick RELIANCE after being ashore on Rockaway, Long Island, NY, May 25, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-05
1964.520.62
View Army transport steamship AMERICA sunk at Pier 3, deck view, Hoboken, NJ, October 14, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-10-14
2008.28.8.348
View Army transport steamship AMERICA sunk at Pier 3, Hoboken, NJ, October 14, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-10-14
2008.28.8.350
View Army transport steamship AMERICA sunk at Pier 3, Hoboken, NJ, October 14, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-10-23
2008.28.8.360
View Salvage tugboat RESOLUTE (SP 1309) and other vessels assisting Army transport steamship AMERICA sunk at Pier 3, Hoboken, NJ, October, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-10
2008.28.8.374
View Tugboat ADVENTURER aground in Luke Superior near Ontonagon, Minnesota, December 1906
real photo postcard
1906-12
2014.49.10368
View "Man the Life Boat"
sheet music
Russell, Henry; Frank Harding's Musical House; Crawford, Louisa Matilda Jane; Harding, E. H.
circa 1889
2004.24.13
View Rescue vessel along starboard side of steamboat listing to port, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.380
View Steamship CITY OF LAHORE, sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, NY, November 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-11
2008.28.8.390
View Damaged hull? of unidentified steamship, sunk, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.397
View Steamship listing at pier, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.401
View Extinguishing fire or pumping out steamship CITY OF LAHORE, sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, NY, November 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-11
2008.28.8.404
View Extinguishing fire or pumping out steamship CITY OF LAHORE, sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, NY, November 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-11
2008.28.8.405
View Lighter CHAMPION alongside steamship CITY OF LAHORE, sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, NY, November 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-11
2008.28.8.407
View Canadian freighter LORD DUFFERIN sunk in New York Harbor, after being rammed by steamship AQUITANIA on February 28, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.427
View Lighter AMERICANA aground, probably in the Hudson River, NY, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.453
View Steamship IPERIA ashore at Seaside Heights, NJ, June 16, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-06-16
2008.28.8.455
View Floating derrick raising steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, June 3, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-06-03
2008.28.8.461
View Lighters CHAMPION and RESOLUTE assisting with raising steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, June 3, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-06-03
2008.28.8.464
View Men walking toward floating derrick CONQUEROR aground in harbor, large reels on deck, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.474
View Tugboats, floating derrick, and other vessels assisting steamer SARATOGA, sunk in Hudson River near Tivoli, NY, October 13, 1906
real photo postcard, white border
1906-10-13
2014.49.9416
View Steamship CAPE COD in dry dock, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.357
View Unidentified steamship wreck, half submerged, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.366
View Damage to ferry PHILADELPHIA, September 17, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-09-17
2008.28.5.434
View Protected cruiser TACOMA wrecked off Veracruz, Mexico, January 16, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-01-16
2008.28.5.524
View Steamship MUNARGO aground, with floating derrick assisting, Nuevitas Harbor, Cuba, November 7, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-11-07
2008.28.5.530
View Protected cruiser TACOMA (deck view) wrecked off Veracruz, Mexico, January 16, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-01-16
2008.28.5.532
View Steamboat INTERSTATE PARK sunk at dock, Brooklyn, New York, April 2, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04-02
2008.28.5.597
View Steamship ANAHUAC stranded on beach at Bellport, Long Island, NY, April 10, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04-10
2008.28.5.606
View Pumping out at dry dock, Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY, May 14, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-14
2008.28.5.625
View Floating derrick CORPORAL (or CORPORATION) sunk at dry dock, Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY, May 23, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-23
2008.28.5.636
View Floating derricks raising submarine S-48 after sinking during builder's trials, off Penfield Reef, Fairfield County, CT, Long Island Sound, December 7, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-12-07
2008.28.5.71
View Motor yacht VEDETTE sunk at foot of Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, January 22, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-01-22
2008.28.5.752
View Deck view of steamship JUANITA aground on San Juan Cay, Venezuela, January 10, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-01-10
2008.28.5.763
View Dredge EUGENE sunk in Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, NY, February 20, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-02-20
2008.28.5.769
View Damaged oil carrier F.D. ASCHE in dry dock at Robbins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, September 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-09
2008.28.5.8
View Steamship EVANGER stranded on Huntington Beach, California, April 16, 1929
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1929-04-16
2008.28.5.802
View Tugboat TALISMAN sunk at dock, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.5.98
View Steamer CITY OF BROCKTON under tow in Hell Gate, New York, after running aground April 6, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-04-06
2008.28.5.103
View Steamer CITY OF BROCKTON under tow in Hell Gate, New York, after running aground April 6, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-04-06
2008.28.5.106
View Steamers CITY OF BROCKTON and CONCORD after running aground in Hell Gate, New York, April 6, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-04-06
2008.28.5.107
View Floating derricks CAPITOL and MONARCH assisting floating grain elevator CERES burned and sunk at Brooklyn, NY, April 22, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-04-22
2008.28.5.107A
View Floating derricks CAPITOL and MONARCH assisting sunken floating grain elevator CERES, Brooklyn, NY, April 22, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-04-22
2008.28.5.109
View Floating derrick and wrecked vessel, probably British steamship ANDREE sunk in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.124
View Tugboat ARAL and other salvage vessels with British steamship ANDREE sunk in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.151
View Tugboats HUGH ROSS, SEGUIN?, SOMMERS N. SMITH, & lighter SOPHIA (SOPHIE?) assisting freighter CAROLYN, wrecked on Metinic Island, ME, Jan. 1912
real photo postcard, divided back
1912-08-17
2014.49.9641
View Training ship GRANITE STATE after fire of May 23, 1921, at New York pier
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-05-23
2008.28.5.16
View Part of large broken shackle, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.187
View Barge WINCECO of Greenport, ashore off New Rochelle, NY, September 1, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-09-01
2008.28.5.223
View Dredge HELL GATE sunk off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, December, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-12
2008.28.5.245
View Dredge HELL GATE sunk off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, December, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-12
2008.28.5.247
View Dredge HELL GATE with tugboat C.F. RAYMOND off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, December, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-12
2008.28.5.248
View Tugboats preparing tow steamship ONONDAGA (not pictured) off Orleans Beach, Cape Cod, MA, 1907
real photo postcard
1907-01
2014.49.9770
View Floating derrick raising steamboat G.F. BRADY sunk in Hudson River off Alpine, NJ, November 29, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-11-29
2008.28.5.257
View Floating derricks CENTURY and MONARCH raising steamboat G.F. BRADY sunk in Hudson River off Alpine, NJ, November 29, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-11-29
2008.28.5.259
View Damaged coal barges ALBANY and NO. 13, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.261
View Damaged steamboat MOHAWK of Boston, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.268
View Tanker SWIFTSTAR stranded off Block Island, RI, October 11, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-10-11
2008.28.5.281
View Tanker SWIFTSTAR stranded off Block Island, RI, October 11, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-10-11
2008.28.5.283
View Tanker SWIFTSTAR in dry dock after running aground off Block Island, Rhode Island, October 11, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-10-11 after
2008.28.5.287
View Tanker SWIFTSTAR in dry dock after running aground off Block Island, Rhode Island, October 11, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-10-11 after
2008.28.5.291
View Floating derricks raising dredger HELL GATE, circa January 22, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-01-22
2008.28.5.297
View Partially raised dredger HELL GATE, floating derrick CENTURY alongside, circa February 16, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-02-16
2008.28.5.305
View Tugboat RICHMOND ashore at Castle Hill, near Newport, RI, February, 1907
real photo postcard
1907-02
2014.49.9835
View Man standing on dock looking at swamped steamship SAGUA, Hoboken, New Jersey, February 16, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-02-16
2008.28.5.312
View Steamship MAYARI ashore at Hart Island, Bronx, NY, February 24, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-02-24
2008.28.5.314
View Pumping out steamship SAGUA, Hoboken, New Jersey, February 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-02
2008.28.5.322
View Steamship BUCKLEIGH ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 17, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-03-17
2008.28.5.331
View Floating derricks raising submarine S-48 sunk during builder's trials, off Penfield Reef, Fairfield County, CT, Long Island Sound, December 7, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-12-07
2008.28.5.34
View Tugboat RICHMOND aground at Castle HIll, near Newport, RI, February, 1907
real photo postcard
1907-02
2014.49.9839
View Steamship SARANAC ashore on McNab Island, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1917-12
1964.600.1
View Schooner WILD PIGEON, sunk, lower New York Bay, NY, December 23, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-12-23
2008.28.2.3
View Two schooners at wharf, salvage operation, circa 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1893
2008.28.2.8
View Steamer CITY OF ATLANTA after fire, Greenpoint, NY, January, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-01
2008.28.2.9
View Fall River Line steamer PLYMOUTH aground near Newport, RI, June 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-06
2008.28.2.13
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising dredge PACIFIC, Delaware Bay, January 5, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-01-05
2008.28.2.18
View Tugboat WALLACE B. FLINT alongside damaged tubgoat JAMES D. NICOL, East River, New York, July 10, 1894
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07-10
2008.28.2.19
View Fall River Line steamer PLYMOUTH aground near Newport, RI, June 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-06
2008.28.2.20
View Fall River Line steamer PLYMOUTH aground near Newport, RI, June 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-06
2008.28.2.30
View Damaged steam yacht AZTEC off Halletts Point, Hell Gate, NY, July 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07-04
2008.28.2.34
View Floating derrick RELIANCE with Ship GLENESSLIN after fire, Brooklyn, NY, September 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-09-23
2008.28.2.49
View Derrick EDGAR with barge POTOMAC in chains, Hudson River, New York, N.Y, October 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-10
2008.28.2.62
View Unidentified bark (or ship) heeled over at wharf, circa 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1894
2008.28.2.69
View Schooner MARIA LOUISE ashore at Highland Beach, NJ, October 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-10
2008.28.2.70
View Schooner ALBERT MASON ashore at Ellis Island, New York, NY, January 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-01
2008.28.2.92
View Freighter TUCKAHOE ashore at Sands Point, Long Island, NY, December 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-12
2008.28.2.100
View Steamer SANKATY ashore off Wilburs Point, Sconticut Neck, near New Bedford, MA, February 21, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-21
1964.586.2
View Derrick RELIANCE and tugboat N.B. STARBUCK at Pier 10, East River, New York, NY, March 17, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-03-17
2008.28.2.109
View Three-masted schooner LESTER A. LEWIS after being hauled off Romer Shoal, New York, April 28, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-04-28
2008.28.2.120
View Steamship OLINDA ashore at Fishers Island, NY, June 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-06
2008.28.2.129
View Steamer ISABEL ashore, with salvage vessels, at Branford, Connecticut, August 5, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08-05
2008.28.2.143
View Steamer ISABEL ashore, with salvage vessels, at Branford, Connecticut, August 5, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08-05
2008.28.2.147
View Derricks MONARCH and RELIANCE carrying dredge FLOOD ROCK to Rikers Island, Bronx, New York, NY, August 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08
2008.28.2.151
View Steamer SANKATY, February 21, 1917, on the rocks after colliding with schooner ALLEN GURNEY off Sconticut Neck, near New Bedford, MA
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-21
1964.585.8
View Steamship ONTARIO, in dry dock after fire, off Montauk Long Island, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.5
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.542.1
View Floating derrick WILL towing Barney Dumping Scow #12, New York, NY, October 1, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-10-01
2008.28.2.170
View Steamship ST. PAUL stranded off Long Branch, NJ, January 25, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-01-25
2008.28.2.185
View Steamship EL DORADO stranded in New York Harbor, NY, February 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-02
2008.28.2.187
View Floating derrick MONARCH at Pocahontas Coal Company dock, Hoboken, NJ, circa 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896
2008.28.2.210
View Central Railroad of New Jersey barge #6 ashore in Shinnecock Bay, Long Island, NY, probably 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896
2008.28.2.211
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.3
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.6
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.4
View Steamship TILLIE aground at Fishers Island, NY, July-August 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-07; 1896-08
2008.28.2.233
View Floating derrick alongside sunken floating grain elevator CERES, Jersey Flats, NJ, August 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-08
2008.28.2.238
View Floating derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH on either side of submerged steamboat ROSEDALE, East River, New York City, September 4, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-09-04
2008.28.2.245
View Tugboat and barge? assisting 3-masted schooner RODNEY PARKER (built 1874) aground near Spring Point Ledge Light off South Portland, Maine
real photo postcard, color
Hugh C. Leighton Co.
after 1874
2014.49.1855
View Wrecking tugboat FAVORITE at site of steamship EASTLAND capsized at Chicago, IL, August 9, 1915
real photo postcard, divided back
Max Rigot Selling Co.
1915-08-15
2014.49.2459
View Barge DAVID CROCKETT stranded on Romer Shoal, New York Bay, 1899
silver print
1899
1974.117
View S.S. NICHOLAS CUNEO ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, February 4, 1913
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-02-04
1964.660.987
View S.S. NICHOLAS CUNEO ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, February 4, 1913
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-02-04
1964.660.989
View Floating derrick raising sunken tugboat LEONARD RICHARDS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.992
View Sunken vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1021
View Derrick raising vessel (...SULLIVAN)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1027
View S.S. NICHOLAS CUNEO ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, February 4, 1913
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-02-04
1964.660.1031
View Sunken yacht VEDETTE, port view, with stern out of water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1220
View Sunken Steamer TOURIST of New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1232.A
View Floating derrick RELIANCE hoisting stone scow
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.467
View Floating derrick turning over capsized vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.474
View Floating derrick and salvage of barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.478
View Charred blocks and boat equipment from steamboat TREMONT
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1904-02-08
1964.660.499
View Floating derrick, lighter and others raising submerged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.503
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising railroad car No. 11
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.513
View Port bow view, S. S. PRINZESS IRENE ashore at Fire Island Beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-06
1964.660.583
View Taylor Dredging Co. scow H.H. 16 ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-23
1964.660.613
View Bow view of sidewheel steamer CENTRAL HUDSON ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-23
1964.660.642
View Damaged bow of steamer CITY OF FALL RIVER after collision, October 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-10-30
1964.660.130
View Steamer TALISMAN sunk in East River, NY, January 23, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-01-23
1964.660.135
View Sidewheel steamship OLD DOMINION aground
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.166
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, starboard view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.658
View Badly wrecked vessel on beach
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.173
View Salvage of railroad "float" ashore; derrick behind
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.174
View Damaged hull of sidewheel steamer JOHN SYLVESTER in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-08-04
1964.660.731
View British steamship ACARA ashore off Long Island, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-03-01
1964.660.218
View Tug JOHN A. HUGHES ashore at Lloyds Neck, Long Island, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-11-26
1964.660.287
View Sunken 3-masted barge THOMAS L. PARKER off Weehawken, NJ
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.320
View Steamer ATLANTIC aground
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.808
View Two unidentified 3-masted vessels (barges?) aground
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.811
View Wreckage of steamboats PRINCETON and NAIAD and steam ferry NEWARK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-02-28
1964.660.824
View lantern slide
circa 1900
2006.34.1046
View Floating derricks raising sunken schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.364
View Schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER raised after being sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.367
View Schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER being raised
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.368
View Schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER raised after being sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.369
View Schooner barge THOMAS L. PARKER raised after being sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-18
1964.660.370
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising tug BRILLIANT
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.832
View 4-Masted schooner HELEN B. CROSBY, foundering
photograph
after 1906
1976.1.174.29
View Floating derrick CENTURY salvaging railroad float
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.402
View Floating derrick CENTURY salvaging railroad float
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.403
View Port view from beach of S. S. BRIGHTON ashore, Atlantic City, NJ
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-03-31
1964.660.417
View Floating derrick raising railroad barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.420
View S.S. JOSE wrecked after fire at Pier 8, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.891
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising unidentified tugboat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12-11
1964.660.1122
View Salvage of sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1127
View BUSH TERMINAL BARGE NO. 7, railroad car slipping off
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1134
View Floating derrick WILL raising sidewheel steamer PERSEUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.904
View Steamer CIMBRIA in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.951
View S. S. TURRIALBA, port view, ashore off New Jersey coast, December 24, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-12-24
1964.660.961
View S. S. TURRIALBA, starboard view, ashore on New Jersey coast, December 24, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-12-24
1964.660.962
View S.S. TURRIALBA in dry dock, view of damaged rudder and propeller
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-12-24
1964.660.963
View S. S. MAUDE, ashore Matanzas, Cuba, February 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-02
1964.660.977
View Floating derrick CONVOY and sunken vessel at dock, barge EDWARD A. MECKEL and tug COLUMBUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2788
View Ten salvage scenes
gelatin negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922-04-22
1964.660.5090
View Possibly damaged vessel in navy yard
gelatin negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5092
View Sunken tug W. A. SHERMAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1248
View Sunken dredge ARIUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1278
View Port view of sunken tugboat JERSEY CENTRAL with floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2864
View Sunken steamer INTERSTATE PARK at wharf with S.S. KIOWA behind and S.S. INCA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2885
View Sunken steamboat F. P. JAMES
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4811
View Sunken barges of Neptune Line and Metropolitan Coal Company
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2599
View Sunken vessel, HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922-12
1964.660.2606
View Sunken vessel, HELL GATE, with tug C.P. RAYMOND
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922-12
1964.660.2610
View Sunken dredge ARIUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1283
View Unidentified sunken vessel, at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Schaefer, Chas. & Son
1964.660.1321
View View of damaged starboard bow of S. S. WEST CALUMB
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1919-01-01
1964.660.2621
View Raising capsized vessel HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2640
View View of deck of damaged tug H. BRASON of New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1338
View Damage to port side of steamer BOSTON
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2954
View Damage to port side of hull of steamer BOSTON
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2955
View Photograph of painting of steamer and sinking 4-masted schooner
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3529
View Damaged hull
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3535
View Damaged steamship at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1370
View Pumping out steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM, lighters HENRY SEYMOUR, JOHN CHITTENDEN, tug CRESCENT
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1444
View Pumping out steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM; tug CRESCENT at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1445
View Pumping out steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1450
View Damaged hull of tugboat R. J. MORAN of New York in dry dock, side view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3065
View Sunken floating derrick CAPITOL, tug at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3075
View Sunken floating derrick CAPITOL, tug at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3076
View Pumping out steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1451
View Unidentified salvage operation, capsized vessel at dock, buildings in background are Mungessor-Dickinson Seed Co., wholesale grass seeds, office and warehouse
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3154
View Salvage operation, view of side of damaged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3209
View Tug BAY RIDGE sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3263
View Stern view of S.S. LENAPE sunk, tugs and lighters around
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2305
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, with tugs and lighters
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2306
View Starboard stern view of S.S. LENAPE, salvage, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2308
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2310
View Bow view, S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2311
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2318
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2331
View Floating derrick raising unidentified sunken vessel (barge)?
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1745
View Capsized railroad barge No. 4
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1748
View Floating derricks MONARCH and CENTURY raising steamer CITY OF STAMFORD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1767
View Sunken barge, September 3, 1921, derricks in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-09-03
1964.660.2410
View Sunken barge, September 10, 1921, derricks in background, Lehigh Valley R.R. barges in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-09-10
1964.660.2411
View Salvage of steamship SAGUA, deck damage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1780
View Tugboat GOLDEN RULE alist, floating derricks ROSLYN and CROTON
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1785
View Tug TALISMAN sunk at dock, port view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2445
View Steamship ANTILLA, of New York, aground, tug NORTH AMERICA and lighter JOHN W. CHITTENDEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1575
View Bow view of sunken tugboat, floating derrick CENTURY at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1810
View Starboard view of sunken tugboat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1811
View Corner of damaged deck of floating derrick or lighter
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1816
View Deck of unidentified vessel awash
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1846
View Capsized floating grain elevator CERES, ship WHEELING MOLD in bachground
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2467
View Port view of sinking of small steamboat, snow on boat
gelatin glass negative
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.660.1586
View Capsized barge, Statue of Liberty in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1853
View Damaged dredge (?)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1857
View Starboard view of S.S. SARATOGA, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1858
View Starboard stern view of tug ELI B. CONINE capsized, barge HECKERS MILL of New York at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1881
View Raising Burns Bros. barge; floating derrick CENTURY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1627
View Steamer ISLANDER, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1926
View Bow view of sunken steamer at dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1953
View Sunken steamer at dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1954
View Derelict barges on shore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1982
View Port view of unidentified steamship aground near beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1995
View Steamship stranded off beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2011.A
View Starboard view of submerged steamship, possibly HUTTONWOOD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2026
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2056
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL, June 16, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-16
1964.660.2073
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2090
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2096
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2100
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 11, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-11
1964.660.2111
View Unidentified wrecked vessel in dry dock; damaged hull from inside
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2135
View Salvage of S.S. BERMUDEZ of Philadelphia; floating derrick CHAPMAN BROS.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2147
View Damaged vessel at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3464
View Lapstrake rowboat on the rocks, misc. salvage picture
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3475
View Unidentified capsized vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2157
View EASTLAND Capsized
photographic postcard
circa 1915
2014.49.173
View "EASTLAND DISASTER"
photographic postcard
circa 1915
2014.49.176
View Barge washed ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2218
View negative
SYLVIA, RICHARD PRATT
June 27, 1950
1991.76.214
View Unidentified wrecked steamer
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5024
View Salvage of S.S. MAIN and S.S. BREMEN after pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.5066
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, view of deck, sunken
gelatin glass negative
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works
1964.660.1639
View Sunken tug KATHRYN, deck of floating derrick CENTURY, at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1689
View Pennsylvania R.R. barge 232, listing
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1740
View Ferry NORTHFIELD, sunk at Pier 10, East River, New York, NY, by collision with ferry MAUCH CHUCK, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.330
View Derrick MONARCH raising ferry NORTHFIELD, sunk at Pier 10, East River, New York, NY, by collision with ferry MAUCH CHUCK, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.333
View Pumping out ferry NORTHFIELD sunk at Pier 10, East River, New York, NY, by collision with ferry MAUCH CHUNK, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.342
View 6 Men deck of ferry NORTHFIELD sunk at Pier 10, East River, New York, NY, by collision with ferry MAUCH CHUNK, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.344
View U.S. Army Transport INGALLS capsized and sunk on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.346
View Coal elevator CLARK NO. 2 capsized and sunk off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, June 24, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-24
2008.28.4.356
View Lighter CHAMPION raising yacht VENITZIA sunk off Captains Island, CT, Long Island Sound, July 19, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-19
2008.28.4.369
View Central Railroad of New Jersey ferry ELIZABETH after fire at Jersey City and sunk near Bedloe's Island, New York, NY, November 24, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-11-24
2008.28.4.379
View Salvage of U.S. Government Transport McPHERSON stranded at Matanzas, Cuba, February 5, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-02-05
2008.28.4.412
View Steamer NORUMBEGA aground at Clark's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, August 1912
real photo postcard
1912-08
2014.49.9352
View 3-Masted schooner HENRY D. MAY under tow after sinking off Stone Horse Shoal, Vineyard Sound, MA, October 13, 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-10-13
1964.576.3
View Bark JULIA covered with ice, Upper Bay, New York, circa 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.3.108
View Burned sailing ship off Constable Hook, Bayonne, New Jersey, circa 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.3.109
View Steamship BREMEN at Hoboken, NJ, pier fire, June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06
2008.28.3.112
View Steamship MAIN, flooded after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.118
View Damaged bow of steamer CITY OF FALL RIVER after collision, October 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-10-30
2008.28.3.133
View Ferry PLAINFIELD burned and sunk off Ellis Island, September 14, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-09-14
2008.28.3.135
View Steamer ST. DUNSTAN afire and sunk at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, January 9, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-01-09
2008.28.3.137
View Schooner NATHANIEL T. PALMER stranded at Beach Haven, NJ, March 11, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-11
2008.28.3.141
View Steamship AGNES listing to starboard, several small boats alongside, larger vessel astern, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.413
View Steamship CAVOUR stranded at Long Beach, NY, January 31, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-01-31
2008.28.4.423
View Man standing on steamship EASTLAND capsized at Chicago, IL, August 9, 1915
real photo postcard
1915-08-09
2014.49.9396
View Derrick RELIANCE while preparing to raise tugboat BERTHA, New York, NY, December 1891
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1891-12
2008.28.1.10
View Steamer EMELINE ashore, Catskill Creek, NY, October 5, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-10-05
2008.28.1.116
View Steamer EMELINE ashore, Catskill Creek, NY, circa October 5, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-10-05
2008.28.1.123
View Schooner CRICKET, January 13, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-01-13
2008.28.1.130
View Schooner WILD PIGEON, sunk, lower New York Bay, NY, December 23, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-12-23
2008.28.1.133
View Diver patching pilot schooner DAVID CARLL after being raised, Stapleton, Staten Island, NY, September 9?, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-02-9
2008.28.1.138
View Central Railroad hoisting crane blown off pier, circa 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1904
1964.521.104
View Steamship MASSACHUSETTS ashore at Great Abaco, Bahamas, October 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1904-10
1964.521.109
View New iron float bridge sunk at Long Island City, Queens, NY, November 11, 1905
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1905-11-11
1964.521.111
View Steam lighter OLD DOMINION after collision with Pennsylvania tugboat, Brooklyn, NY, November 27, 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1904-11-27
1964.521.114
View British steamship DRUMELZIER ashore at Fire Island, Long Island, NY, December 26, 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1904-12-26
1964.521.118
View Steamship MASSACHUSETTS ashore at Hole in the Wall, Great Abaco, Bahamas, October 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1904-10
1964.521.121
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, L.I. March 27, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-27
2008.28.3.151
View Raising of US Army Transport RAWLINS sunk at Pier 22, Brooklyn, NY, April 10, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-10
2008.28.3.153
View Railroad car sunk in upper bay, New York, circa 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.3.163
View US Army transport INGALLS capsized on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.3.169
View Cracked hull of British steamship ACARA aground off Jones Inlet, Long Island, NY, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.490
View Steamship BRITISH QUEEN listing after fire at Hoboken, NJ, March 19, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-09
2008.28.4.499
View Tugboat Transfer No. 6 in dry dock, after sinking in Harlem River, New York, August 8, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-08
2008.28.1.140
View Ferry F.P. JAMES between derricks on the flats at Riker's Island, NY, April 5, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-04-05
2008.28.1.147
View US Revenue Cutter WASHINGTON sunk in New York Bay, February 27, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-02-27
2008.28.1.155
View Ferry F.P. JAMES sunk at Hallett's Cove, Astoria, Queens, NY, March 30, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-03-30
2008.28.1.165
View Derricks RELIANCE and EDGAR and lighter HUSTLER raising lighter EDWIN BAILEY sunk of Coney Island, NY, April 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-04
2008.28.1.173
View Wreck of Atlantic City Express (railroad), Newark Bay trestle, New Jersey, August 4, 1905
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1905-08-04
1964.521.126
View Steamship BODO ashore at Gilgo Inlet, Long Island, NY, March 20, 1906
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1906-03-20
1964.521.134
View Steamboat EMMA HENDRIX raised off Port Monmouth, NJ, June 24, 1906
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1906-06-24
1964.521.139
View British freighter GOWANBURN ashore at Blue Point, Long Island, NY, March 20, 1907
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-03-20
1964.521.149
View 4-Masted schooner MILES M. MERRY stranded at Moriches, Long Island, NY, September 11, 1907
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-09-11
1964.521.157
View British 4-masted bark PURITAN ashore off Bellport, Long Island, NY, February 4, 1908
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1908-02-04
1964.521.169
View Men on deck of ship FLOTTBEK ashore at Long Branch, NJ, November 23, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-11-23
2008.28.3.195
View Ferry COLLEGE POINT ashore and sunk on North Brother Island, NY, December 13, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-13
2008.28.3.197
View Schooner VIOLA stranded with cargo of lumber at Matinecock Pt., LIS, December 1894
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-12
2008.28.3.20
View NYNH & HRR Car Float No. 26 ashore at Oak Point, NY, with 10 cars overboard, January 26, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-01-26
2008.28.3.205
View Ship J.G. WALKER ashore on Governor's Island, NY Harbor, February 5, 1896
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-02-05
2008.28.3.21
View Steamship ONEIDA sinking at Pier 29, East River, New York, September 21, 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-09-21
2008.28.3.36
View Jersey Central Railroad locomotive being raised at their drawbridge, Newark Bay, October 25, 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-10-25
2008.28.3.40
View Railroad cars on drawbridge, probably after Central Railroad of New Jersey accident at drawbridge, Newark Bay, NJ, April 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-04
2008.28.4.517
View Steamship in dry dock, view of broken propeller, circa 1903
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1903
2008.28.4.519
View British steamship ACARA broken in two off Jones Inlet, Long Island, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.530
View Men working on unidentified raised wrecked vessel, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.549
View Floating derrick MONARCH lifting floating grain elevator CERES at coal docks, Jersey City, NJ, August 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-08
2008.28.4.55
View Floating derrick CENTURY and unidentified wreck; circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.551
View Salvage vessels with sunk barge MILTON, Hell Gate, New York, NY, November 23, 1893
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-11-23
2008.28.1.204
View Steamer CITY OF NORWALK sunk at Blackwells Island, NY, March 30, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-30
2008.28.1.21
View Derrick RELIANCE raising loaded freight cars from sunken float No 68, New York, NY, March 28, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-28
2008.28.1.24
View Derrick RELIANCE raising loaded freight cars from sunken float No 68, New York, NY, March 20, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-20
2008.28.1.30
View Steamer CITY OF NORWALK in dry dock, East River, New York, NY, April 3, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-04-03
2008.28.1.31
View Steamship H.M. WHITNEY in dry dock after sinking at Hell Gate, New York, NY, 1908
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1908
1964.521.191
View Steamship CHIPPEWA ashore at Montauk Point, Long Island, NY, June 24, 1908
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1908-06-24
1964.521.195
View Tugboat JOHN H. HUGHES and barge MABEL L. PHILLIPS ashore at Lloyds Neck, Long Island, NY, November 26, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-11-26
1964.521.29
View Barkentine CULDOON stranded on Nantucket, March 23, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1898-03-23
2008.28.3.47
View Steamer CITY OF WORCESTER sunk in Thames River, New London, CT, May 29, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-29
2008.28.3.52
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising vessel at wharf; circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.563
View Tugboat TRANSFER NO. 3 sunk after being hit by steamer BUNKER HILL (not shown), probably New York Bay, October 2, 1907
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-10-02
2008.28.4.588
View Raising sunk railroad engine, circa 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1910
2008.28.4.590
View Salvage operation, floating derrick MONARCH raising sunk railroad engine, circa 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1910
2008.28.4.596
View Steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02
2008.28.4.6
View Freighter TUCKAHOE ashore at Sands Point, Long Island, NY, December 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-12
2008.28.4.61
View New York Central Lighterage Company barge No. 14, sunk, Brooklyn, NY, September 23, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-23
2008.28.1.72
View New York Central Lighterage Company barge No. 14, sunk, Brooklyn, NY, September 23, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-23
2008.28.1.73
View New York Central Lighterage Company barge No. 14, sunk, Brooklyn, NY, September 23, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-23
2008.28.1.75
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.88
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.91
View New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad car float ashore at Sunken Meadow, NY, December 25, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-12-25
1964.521.40
View Bark AMSTERDAM on fire at Pier 12, East River, New York, August 26, 1903
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1903-08-26
1964.521.74
View Steamboat JOHN E. MOORE after sinking at Romer Shoal, Lower New York Bay, November 26, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-11-26
2008.28.4.81
View Unidentified cargo vessel aground, circa 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1896
2008.28.4.82
View Unidentified cargo vessel aground, circa 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1896
2008.28.4.83
View Damaged hull of fishing schooner RHODE ISLAND after collision, San Martins Island, Mexico, December 26, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-12-26
1962.1249.113
View Damaged hull of fishing schooner RHODE ISLAND after collision, San Martins Island, Mexico, December 26, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-12-26
1962.1249.119
View US Navy destroyers wrecked at Point Pedernales, California, September 8, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-09-08
1962.1249.120
View Shell Oil barge MARTINEZ sunk at Raccoon Straits, San Francisco Bay, California, May, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.129
View Steamship DAVID C. MEYER ashore at Point Fermin, near San Pedro, California, March 12, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-03-12
1962.1249.139
View Steamship DAVID C. MEYER ashore at Point Fermin, near San Pedro, California, March 12, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-03-12
1962.1249.142
View Tanker RICHFIELD aground, Long Beach Channel, San Pedro, California, January 22, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-01-22
1962.1249.43
View Shell Oil Co. barge MARTINEZ sinking, Raccoon Strait, San Francisco Bay, California, May 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.50
View Launch ELCO wrecked, probably Ventura, California, July 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-07
1962.1249.57
View Launch ELCO wrecked, probably Ventura, California, July 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-07
1962.1249.58
View Norwegian steamship EVANGER ashore at Huntington Beach, California, April 1929
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Beckley, Chester A.
1929-04
1962.1249.66
View USN destroyer wrecked near Santa Barbara, CAlifronia, September 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-09
1962.1249.77
View Steamship COLUMBIA partially submerged, September 19, 1931
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1931-09-19
1962.1249.80
View Lighter ALICE attaching pump to steamer SANKATY ashore at Wilbur's Point, Sconticut Neck, near New Bedford, MA, February 21, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-21
1964.587.1
View Floating derricks raising unidentified vessel, circa 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1896
2008.28.4.127
View 4-Masted ship COUNTY OF EDINBURGH aground at Point Pleasant, NJ, February 12, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-12
2008.28.4.147
View 4-Masted ship COUNTY OF EDINBURGH aground at Point Pleasant, NJ, February 12, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-12
2008.28.4.150
View Lighter HENRY SEYMOUR assisting sunk steamer SARATOGA, Hudson River at Tivoli, NY, October 13, 190
real photo postcard, white border
1906-10-13
2014.49.9956
View Wrecked steamer SARATOGA, Hudson River at Tivoli, NY, October 13, 1906
real photo postcard, white border
1906-10-13
2014.49.9958
View Raising 3-masted schooner PENOKEE (probably), Romer Shoal (NY & NJ), September 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-09
2008.28.4.170
View Ferry STEINWAY on marine railway, damaged hull of another vessel on marine railway at left, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.175
View Raising 3-masted schooner PENOKEE, Romer Shoal (NY & NJ), September 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-09
2008.28.4.179
View Steamship LASSELL after being sunk by S.S. Friesland, December 5, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-12-5
2008.28.4.185
View Derrick hoisting vessel's smoke stack, 3 men standing in foreground, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.206
View Steamship SAALE after fire at piers, Hoboken, NJ, June 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.210
View Steamship SAALE and salvage vessels after fire at piers, Hoboken, NJ, June 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.211
View Steamships MAIN and BREMEN after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.228
View Steamship BREMEN with salvage vessels after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.236
View Steamship BREMEN with floating derrick ATLAS and barge EMMA after pier fire , Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.243
View Steamer TALISMAN sunk in East River off mouth of Newtown Creek, January 23, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-01-23
2008.28.4.262
View Tugboat CHARLES F. ALLEN stranded on beach at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York, NY, May 24, 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1910-05-24
1964.518.25
View Steamer ST. DUNSTAN on fire and sunk, tugboats alongside, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, January 9, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-01-09
2008.28.4.265
View Steamer POUGHKEEPSIE ashore in Hudson River at Stony Point, NY, March 21, 1901, lighter RAYMOND assisting
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-21
2008.28.4.279
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 27, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-27
2008.28.4.299
View Steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02
2008.28.4.3
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 27, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-27
2008.28.4.300
View On deck of U.S. Army Transport RAWLINS sunk after fire at Pier 22, Brooklyn, NY, April 10, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-10
2008.28.4.305
View Pumping out U.S. Army Transport RAWLINS sunk after fire at Pier 22, Brooklyn, NY, April 10, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-10
2008.28.4.310
View Pumping out U.S. Army Transport RAWLINS sunk after fire at Pier 22, Brooklyn, NY, April 10, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-10
2008.28.4.313
View Steamship ANTILLA of New York, aground, lighter JOHN W. CHITTENDEN and tugboat NORTH AMERICA, probably after collision with barge off Sea Gate, Brooklyn, NY, December 13, 1915
real photo postcard, divided back
merritt-chapman; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1915-12
2014.49.9478
View Dredge LEHIGH sunk at Perth Amboy, NJ, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.559
View Raising dredge LEHIGH sunk at Perth Amboy, NJ, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.564
View Pumping out ferry? sunk in harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.572
View Old Dominion lighter #39 sunk in Hudson River at 35th Street, New York, NY, November 10, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-11-10
2008.28.8.585
View Unidentified wreckage, possibly New York Harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.615
View Vessel sunk in icy harbor, probably New York harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.622
View Pumping out Clyde Line steamship LENAPE sunk at Pier 36, Hudson River, New York City, October 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-10
2008.28.6.102
View Steamship aground off shore
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.16
View Bridge? accident
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.26
View Steamship aground
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.40
View Steamship aground
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.41
View Floating derricks CONVEYOR and MONARCH raising wreck
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.5
View American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01
2008.28.8.631
View Pumping out American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01
2008.28.8.640
View American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01
2008.28.8.650
View Central Railroad of New Jersey steam lighter #27, sunk at Yonkers, NY, January 29, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01-29
2008.28.8.663
View Men standing on ice-covered deck of Central Railroad of New Jersey steam lighter #27, sunk at Yonkers, NY, January 29, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01-29
2008.28.8.664
View Floating derrick raising Central Railroad of New Jersey steam lighter #27, sunk at Yonkers, NY, January 29, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01-29
2008.28.8.666
View Floating derricks raising tugboat AUGUSTINE sunk at McWilliams Dry Dock Co., Staten Island, NY, January 30, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01-30
2008.28.8.669
View Old Dominion Line steamship PRINCESS ANNE aground off Rockaway Point, NY, after snowstorm, February 9, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-02-20
2008.28.8.677
View Floating derricks CENTURY and COMMISSARY raising vessel or structure
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.53
View Steamship? ALASKAN? of New York aground off coast
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.71
View Freighter aground
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.74
View Clyde Line steamship LENAPE sunk at Pier 36, Hudson River, New York City, October 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-10
2008.28.6.99
View Damaged hull of Old Dominion Line steamship PRINCESS ANNE aground off Rockaway Point, NY, after snowstorm, February 9, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-02-20
2008.28.8.679
View Damaged hull of steamer MAINE aground in Long Island Sound off Execution Light, February 11, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-02-11
2008.28.8.682
View Munson Line steamship MOCCASIN sunk at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-03
2008.28.8.686
View Munson Line steamship MOCCASIN sunk at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-03
2008.28.8.693
View Barge GREENPORT sunk at wharf, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.723
View Lighter RESOLUTE and floating derrick COMMODORE assisting steamship MANCHURIA sunk at Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, June 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-06
2008.28.8.10
View Tugboat EDGAR BAXTER pumping out barge NEW JERSEY sunk at Pier 44 in East River, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.100
View Steamship BERMUDEZ partially raised after sinking at Crane's Dry Dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 16-20, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-03-16
2008.28.8.1009
View Extinguishing fire aboard Norwegian steamship HALLFRIED, Pier 5, Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, NY, April 19, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-04-19
2008.28.8.741
View Fire damaged steamship, possibly related to fire at Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, NY, April 19, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.746
View Fire damaged steamship, possibly related to fire at Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, NY, April 19, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.747
View Floating derrick CHIEF assisting barge sunk in harbor, probably New York City area, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.751
View Pumping out barge sunk in harbor, probably New York City area, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.757
View Capsized vessel, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.768
View Capsized vessel, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.769
View Capsized vessel, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.774
View Capsized vessel, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.775
View S.S. MAUDE ashore at Matanzas, Cuba, February 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-02
1964.517.25
View Unidentified camouflaged vessel partially sunk
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.517.28
View Probably tanker F.H. BUCK on the rocks at Point Pinos, Monterey Bay, CA
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.517.32
View Barge stranded off shore, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1050
View Floating derrick assisting sunk vessel WEBER & BURKE, probably New York Harbor, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1065
View Floating derrick probably assisting sunk vessel, New York Harbor, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1068
View Steamship CRISFIELD aground, July 18, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-07-18
2008.28.8.1098
View Steamship ARGONNE after floating, probably at Morant Cays, Jamaica, July 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-07
2008.28.8.81
View Steamship ARGONNE after floating, probably at Morant Cays, Jamaica, July 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-07
2008.28.8.82
View Salvage vessels alongside stranded vessel PROMISED LAND?
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.545.1
View Derelict barge at wharf, probably Brooklyn, NY, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1108
View Tugboat VIKING sunk at wharf, probably New York, NY, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1131
View Floating derrick COMMANDER raising steamship KERSHAW capsized at wharf, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10-15
2008.28.8.852
View Steamship KERSHAW partially raised after capsizing at wharf, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10-15
2008.28.8.861
View Floating derricks MONARCH and WILL raising sidewheel steamer CATSKILL sunk in Hudson River, September 15, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-09-15
1964.520.109
View Steamship H.F. DIMOCK sunk in East River, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.120
View Lighter RESOLUTE assisting steamship H.F. DIMOCK sunk in East River, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.121
View Deck view of steamship H.F. DIMOCK sunk in East River, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.124
View Two floating derricks raising unidentified vessel, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.127
View Magnetic hoisting crane lifting cargo off steamship MANCHURIA sunk at Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, June 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-06
2008.28.8.9
View Equipment, probably on board barge? CRAB, probably New York, NY, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.921
View Steamship THURINGIA ashore at Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, West Indies, after 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
after 1922
1964.520.14
View Steamboat JOSEPHINE THOMSON sunk in harbor, possibly New York, NY, circa 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1897
1964.520.145
View Floating derrick RELIANCE and lighter WM. E. CHAPMAN assisting steamer ULSTER sunk in Hudson River, near Cornwall, NY, November 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-11
1964.520.156
View Floating derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH raising steamer ULSTER sunk in Hudson River, near Cornwall, NY, November 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-11
1964.520.157
View Steamer ULSTER sunk in Hudson River, near railroad tracks, near Cornwall, NY, November 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-11
1964.520.159
View 3-Masted schooner PINE FOREST? sunk, steamboat alongside, circa 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1897
1964.520.166
View Fishing steamer JAMES N. GIFFORD of Stonington, CT, sunk at Oneco Works wharf, New London, CT, circa March 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1912-03
1964.558
View Tugboat sunk at Morse Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.141
View Tugboat sunk at Morse Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.142
View Norwegian bark SORSTAD, capsized in icy harbor after rammed by tugboat, January 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-01
2008.28.8.163
View Taylor Dredging Corporation dredge capsized, New York Harbor, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.17
View C.L. Taylor & Co., Dredge No. 1 sunk, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.930
View Vessel sunk in ice, possibly Hudson River, New York, NY, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.934
View Floating derrick ADVANCE sunk at Yonkers, NY, January 21, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-01-21
2008.28.8.964
View British steamship TAFF, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.176
View Floating derrick MONARCH assisting steamboat ERICSSON sunk in Delaware River, February 26, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-02-16
1964.520.187
View Wreck of battleship U.S.S. MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898
1964.520.189
View Floating derricks assisting steamer CITY OF WORCESTER partly submerged in Thames River, New London, CT, May 29, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-29
1964.520.210
View Lighter HUSTLER being towed; probably associated with steamer CITY OF WORCESTER submerged in Thames River, New London, CT, May 29, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05
1964.520.216
View Floating derrick RELIANCE raising sidewheel steamer JOHN E. MOORE from Romer Shoals, November 26, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-11-26
1964.520.22
View Damaged hull, probably lighter JAMES LOGAN in dry dock, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.188
View Vessel sunk in icy harbor, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.191
View Steamship SUSQUEHANNA ashore at Barnegat, NJ, March 7, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-03-07
2008.28.8.198
View Lighter RESOLUTE assisting steamship HUTTONWOOD off Brooklyn, NY, after explosion in hold on August 6, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-08-06
2008.28.8.222
View Salvage vessels assisting steamship HUTTONWOOD off Brooklyn, NY, after explosion in hold on August 6, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-08-06
2008.28.8.230
View Floating derrick assisting sunk vessel, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.982
View Barge INDEPENDENT stranded near Riverhead, Long Island, NY, November 26, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-11-26
1964.520.234
View Schooner FLORENCE sunk, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.251
View Interior view of damaged vessel, probably steamship ST. PAUL or steamship HUTTONWOOD, man wearing diving suit at left; circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.239
View Floating derrick raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, April 26, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-04-26
2008.28.8.280
View Schooner aground off shore, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.271
View Schooner aground off shore, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.272
View Schooner aground off shore, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.273
View Schooner aground off shore, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.274
View Schooner yacht ALSACIENNE sunk at Port Jefferson, NY, during storm of November 26-27, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-11-26; 1898-11-27
1964.520.296
View Floating derrick RELIANCE raising Lehigh Valley Railroad sunk grain cars, January 10, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-01-10
1964.520.301
View Floating derrick CHIEF raising steamship ST. PAUL sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, after capsizing on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.283
View Floating derrick raising steamship ST. PAUL sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, after capsizing on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.284
View Raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, after capsizing on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.285
View Apparatus for raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL June 2, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-06-02
2008.28.8.287
View Floating derricks CHIEF, COMMODORE, and barge I.J. ROSE, after raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, June?, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-06
2008.28.8.290
View Apparatus for raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, New York, NY, July 14, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-07-14
2008.28.8.303
View Apparatus for raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, New York, NY, June 26, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-06-26
2008.28.8.306
View Deck view of American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.314
View Pumping out American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.325
View Pumping out American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.328
View Ferry HACKENSACK stranded on the rocks at Sunken Meadow, Long Island, February 12, 189
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-02-12
1964.520.36
View Pumping out ferry ANNEX NO. 5 after fire on Communipaw Flats, Jersey City, NJ, March 31, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-03-31
1964.520.50
View Floating derrick assisting steamer MORGAN ashore, probably off Governors Island, New York harbor, May 9, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-05-09
1964.520.51
View Floating derricks MONARCH and RELIANCE lifting float bridge at Wall Street Ferry, Montague St., Brooklyn, NY, November 14, 1896[?]
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-11-14
1964.520.6
View Barge SHARP, circa 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1897
1964.520.70
View Barge SHARP, circa 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1897
1964.520.71
View Tugboat? assisting sunk 3-masted schooner, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
1964.520.78
View Pumping out American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.332
View Floating derrick assisting tugboat EDWIN TERRY sunk in Hudson River, August 28, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-08-28
2008.28.8.34
View Floating derricks assisting at raising steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.340
View Raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.341
View Floating derrick CENTURY assisting tugboat EDWIN TERRY sunk in Hudson River, August 28, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-08-28
2008.28.8.35
View Army transport steamship AMERICA sunk at Pier 3, deck view, Hoboken, NJ, October 14, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-10-18
2008.28.8.351
View Ddeck view of Army transport steamship AMERICA sunk at Pier 3, Hoboken, NJ, October, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-10
2008.28.8.363
View Pumping out Army transport steamship AMERICA sunk at Pier 3, Hoboken, NJ, October, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-10
2008.28.8.371
View Steamer CITY OF WORCESTER partly submerged in Thames River, New London, CT, salvage vessels alongside, May 29, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-29
1964.520.83
View Steamer CITY OF WORCESTER sunk in Thames River, New London, CT, lighter HUSTLER and salvage vessels alongside, May 29, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.520.86
View Men at work on wreck of battleship U.S.S. MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898
1964.520.92
View Lighter WM. E. CHAPMAN assisting sidewheel steamer CATSKILL sunk in Hudson River, NY, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897
1964.520.94
View Steamer ASHLEY aground, Huron, OH, 1907-1929, tugboat FAIRMOUNT in foreground
real photo postcard, divided back
1907-1929
2014.49.10353
View Steamship CITY OF LAHORE, sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, NY, November 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-11
2008.28.8.386
View Deck view of steamship CITY OF LAHORE, sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, NY, November 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-11
2008.28.8.391
View Steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, February, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.412
View Steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, February, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.424
View Tugboat FAVORITE assisting capsized railroad ferry ANN ARBOR NO. 4 after loading mishap, Manistique, Michigan, Lake Michigan, 1909
real photo postcard, divided back
1909
2014.49.10430
View Lighter CHAMPION assisting Canadian freighter LORD DUFFERIN sunk in New York Harbor, after being rammed by steamship AQUITANIA on February 28, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.434
View Deck view of cargo ship WAUBESA in New York Harbor, after collision with ferry boats QUEENS and MAYOR GAYNOR in fog on March 17, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-03
2008.28.8.442
View Pumping out cargo ship WAUBESA in New York Harbor, after collision with ferry boats QUEENS and MAYOR GAYNOR in fog on March 17, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-03
2008.28.8.444
View Pumping out cargo ship WAUBESA in New York Harbor, after collision with ferry boats QUEENS and MAYOR GAYNOR in fog on March 17, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-03
2008.28.8.446
View Lighter AMERICANA aground, probably in the Hudson River, NY, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.452
View Steamship IPERIA ashore at Seaside Heights, NJ, June 16, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-06-16
2008.28.8.454
View Steamship IPERIA ashore at Seaside Heights, NJ, June 16, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-06-16
2008.28.8.456
View Floating derrick raising steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, June 3, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-06-03
2008.28.8.462
View Raising steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, June 3, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-06-03
2008.28.8.465
View Tugboat assisting steamboat ARUNDELL run aground in St. Lawrence River, La Fargeville, NY, June 1908
real photo postcard, divided back
1908-06
2014.49.9456
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising 4-masted schooner DUSTIN G. CRESSY off Governors Island, after collision with steamship VALERIA, February 19, 1917
real photo postcard, divided back
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-19
2014.49.9458
View Tugboat FAVORITE assisting capsized railroad ferry ANN ARBOR NO. 4 after loading mishap, Manistique, Michigan, Lake Michigan, 1909
real photo postcard, divided back
1909
2014.49.10433
View Vessels assisting US troop ship GRAF WALDERSEE aground off Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, November 1905
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1905-11
2008.28.8.494
View Twisted metal (vessel sheathing?) hoisted on deck of floating derrick CENTURY, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.509
View Steamship BALABAC wreck, Mucurapo Point, Trinidad and Tobago, January 1923
copy gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-01
2008.28.5.364
View 4-Masted schooner ADA TOWER ashore at Fire Island, Long Island, NY, May 23, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-05-23
2008.28.5.367
View Partially raised sunken garbage barge, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.393
View Steamer CITY OF ROCKLAND on the rocks at Dix Island, Kennebec River, Maine, September 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-09
2008.28.5.408
View Fire-damaged yacht on floating derrick CENTURY, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.417
View Damage to ferry PHILADELPHIA, September 17, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-09-17
2008.28.5.433
View Steamship MUNARGO aground, Nuevitas Harbor, Cuba, November 7, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-11-07
2008.28.5.520
View Steamer SQUANTUM ashore, Brooklyn, January 17, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-01-17
2008.28.5.571
View Steamer SQUANTUM ashore, Brooklyn, January 17, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-01-17
2008.28.5.574
View Damaged oil carrier F.D. ASCHE in dry dock at Robbins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, September 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-09
2008.28.5.6
View Steamboat INTERSTATE PARK sunk at dock, Brooklyn, New York, April 2, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04-02
2008.28.5.600
View Barge sunk at wharf, July 27, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-07-27
2008.28.5.62
View Yawl yacht CHAPMAN II ashore at Gravesend Bay, New York, May 1, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-01
2008.28.5.622
View Lea-Courtenay Company pump pumping out at dry dock, Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY, May 14, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-14
2008.28.5.623
View Pumping out at dry dock, Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY, May 14, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-14
2008.28.5.624
View Floating derrick MONARCH assisting steamship EGREMONT CASTLE sunk on Red Hook Flats, Brooklyn, NY, June 26, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-06-26
2008.28.5.644
View Lighter CASCADE assisting pumping out steamship EGREMONT CASTLE sunk on Red Hook Flats, Brooklyn, NY, June 26, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-06-26
2008.28.5.647
View Men inspecting damage to steamship BOSTON in dry dock July-August 1924, after collision with tanker SWIFTARROW off Point Judith, RI, July 21, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-07-28 through 1924-08-04
2008.28.5.661
View Steamship BOSTON in dry dock July-August 1924, after collision with tanker SWIFTARROW off Point Judith, RI, July 21, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-07-28 through 1924-08-04
2008.28.5.662
View Barge sunk at wharf, September 3, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-09-03
2008.28.5.68
View Fire damaged lighter DAYTON, November 18, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-11-18
2008.28.5.707
View Tugboat TRANSFER NO. 5, sunk, New York, NY, December, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-12-29
2008.28.5.730
View Steamship JUANITA aground on San Juan Cay, Venezuela, January 10, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-01-10
2008.28.5.766
View Steamship MALOLO in dry dock in New York, NY, after collision with steamship JACOB CHRISTENSEN near Nantucket Lightship, 1927
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1927
2008.28.5.800
View Steamship PONCE sunk at United Dry Dock Co. (formerly W. & A. Fletcher Dry Dock), Fletcher Plant, Hoboken, NJ, October 1928
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1928-10
2008.28.5.801
View Pumping out ocean liner SARATOGA, floating derrick CENTURY at left
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.5.803
View Partially submerged steamship COLUMBIA
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.5.805
View Floating derricks CAPITOL and MONARCH assisting floating grain elevator CERES burned and sunk at Brooklyn, NY, April 22, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-04-22
2008.28.5.106A
View Floating grain elevator CERES, sunk at US Army base, Brooklyn, NY, April 22, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-04-22
2008.28.5.116
View Salvage vessels with British steamship ANDREE sunk in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.149
View Lighter CHAPMAN BROS. assisting British steamship ANDREE sunk in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.153
View Revenue cutter ANDROSCOGGIN and tugboat JOHN CHESTER MORRISON assisting schooner TAY near Isle au Haut, Maine, 1911
real photo postcard, divided back
1911
2014.49.9631
View British steamship ANDREE in dry dock after sinking in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.160
View British steamship ANDREE in dry dock after sinking in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.162
View Barge EUREKA, Brooklyn, NY, July 11, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-07-11
2008.28.5.177
View Barge EUREKA, Brooklyn, NY, July 11, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-07-11
2008.28.5.179
View Damaged barge EUREKA, Brooklyn, NY, July 13, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-07-13
2008.28.5.182
View Part of large broken shackle, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.186
View Part of large broken shackle, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.190
View Steamer MOHAWK of Boston aground, floating derrick CORPORAL at right, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.196
View Steamer MOHAWK of Boston floated after running aground, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.200
View Dredge HELL GATE sunk off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, December, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-12
2008.28.5.246
View Floating derricks CENTURY and MONARCH raising steamboat G.F. BRADY sunk in Hudson River off Alpine, NJ, November 29, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-11-30
2008.28.5.260
View Damaged steamboat MOHAWK of Boston, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.266
View Tanker SWIFTSTAR stranded off Block Island, RI, October 11, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-10-11
2008.28.5.282
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising dredger HELL GATE, circa January 22, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-01-22
2008.28.5.298
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising dredger HELL GATE, circa January 22, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-01-22
2008.28.5.299
View Partially raised dredger HELL GATE, circa February 16, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-02-16
2008.28.5.304
View T.A. Scott floating derrick MONARCH & lighter ADDIE & CARRIE assisting Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE on the rocks at Fishers Island, NY, April 1911
real photo postcard, divided back
1911-04
2014.49.9819
View Steamship MAYARI ashore at Hart Island, Bronx, NY, February 25, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-02-25
2008.28.5.316
View Steamship BUCKLEIGH ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 17, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-03-17
2008.28.5.335
View Damaged hull of steamship SANTA MARTA at Robins Dry Dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, May 13-14, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-05-13; 1923-05-14
2008.28.5.337
View Damaged hull of steamship SANTA MARTA at Robins Dry Dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, May 13-14, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-05-13; 1923-05-14
2008.28.5.338
View Tugboat RICHMOND ashore at Castle Hill, near Newport, RI, February 1907
real photo postcard
1907-02
2014.49.9838
View Two schooners at wharf, salvage operation, circa 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1893
2008.28.2.6
View Fall River Line steamer PLYMOUTH aground near Newport, RI, June 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-06
2008.28.2.21
View Derrick EDGAR raising sunk steam yacht AZTEC off Halletts Point, Hell Gate, NY, July 4, 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07-04
2008.28.2.31
View Damaged steamer CEPHEUS at Downing & Lawrence Shipyard, Brooklyn, NY, July 1894
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07
2008.28.2.36
View Damaged steamer CEPHEUS and lighter HUSTLER, Brooklyn, NY, July 1894
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07
2008.28.2.37
View Bark EMMA T. CROWELL at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, after fire off Fire Island, New York, July 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07
2008.28.2.39
View Derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH raising sunken vessel, circa 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1894
2008.28.2.61
View Schooner ALBERT MASON ashore at Ellis Island, New York, NY, January 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-01
2008.28.2.102
View Steamer SANKATY ashore off Wilburs Point, Sconticut Neck, near New Bedford, MA, February 21, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-21
1964.586.5
View Steamer CONTINENTAL ashore at Ward's Island, East River, New York, NY, April 14, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-04-15
2008.28.2.117
View Steamship OLINDA ashore at Fishers Island, NY, June 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-06
2008.28.2.131
View British 4-masted bark CARNIEHILL after fire, in New York Bay off Governors Island, August 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08
2008.28.2.138
View Steamer ISABEL ashore, with salvage vessels, at Branford, Connecticut, August 5, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08-05
2008.28.2.144
View British 4-masted bark CARNIEHILL after fire, in New York Bay off Governors Island, August 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08
2008.28.2.148
View Dredge FLOOD ROCK in chains between derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH, Rikers Island, Bronx, New York, NY, August 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08
2008.28.2.153
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.1
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.1
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.8
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.542.5
View Barney Dumping Scow #12 in drydock at James Shewan & Sons, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, October 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-10-03
2008.28.2.167
View Barney Dumping Scow #12 in drydock at James Shewan & Sons, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, October 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-10-03
2008.28.2.168
View Barney Dumping boat ashore at Gravesend Bay, NY, December 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-12
2008.28.2.174
View Steamship EL DORADO stranded in New York Harbor, NY, February 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-02
2008.28.2.186
View Coffer dam on hull of damaged steamship GEORGE W. CLYDE, probably Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 9, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-03-09
2008.28.2.197
View Steamboat JOHN L. HASBROUCK ashore in ice-filled Hudson River at New Hamburg, NY, March 5, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-03-05
2008.28.2.200
View Steamboat JOHN L. HASBROUCK ashore in ice-filled Hudson River at New Hamburg, NY, March 5, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-03-05
2008.28.2.201
View Barge IMPERIAL ashore near Barnegat, NJ, April 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-04
2008.28.2.206
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.1
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.5
View Salvage vessels alongside sunken floating grain elevator CERES, Jersey Flats, NJ, August 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-08
2008.28.2.239
View Tugboat COLUMBIA partially sunk at Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, circa 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1896
2008.28.2.240
View Three 3-masted barges ashore on Cape Cod, MA
real photo postcard, color, divided back, white border
E. D. West Company; Curt Teich & Co.
2014.49.1747
View Tugboat BLUE JAY wrecked on east shore of Block Island, RI, probably 1905
real photo postcard, color, divided back
Rhode Island News Co.
1905
2014.49.1959
View Milwaukee fireboat alongside whaleback steamboat CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS damaged by falling water tower, Milwaukee River, Milwaukee, WI, June 1917
real photo postcard, divided back
1917-06
2014.49.2816
View woodcut
March 01, 1873
1939.121
View Freighter EXCALIBUR
negative
SYLVIA, RICHARD PRATT
June 27, 1950
1991.76.213
View Sunken tug HENRY A. PECK, tug SUCCESS in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1016
View Floating derrick raising tug THOMAS F. O'BRIEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1022
View Floating derrick raising tug THOMAS F. O'BRIEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1023
View Bow of charred lifeboat from steamboat TREMONT
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1904-02-08
1964.660.495
View Lighters and floating derricks raising vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.502
View Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-02
1964.660.578
View Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-02
1964.660.580
View S.S. PRINZESS IRENE, starboard view, ashore at Fire Island Beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-06
1964.660.584
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising tug McCALDIN BROS.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-02
1964.660.610
View S.S. KAISER WILHELM DER GROSSE being towed from Hoboken, NJ, Pier Fire of June 30, 1900
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.96
View S.S. SAALE after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.101
View Belmont's sloop (catboat) ashore at Sandy Hook Beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-23
1964.660.616
View Prt view of sidewheel steamer CENTRAL HUDSON ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-23
1964.660.644
View Starboard view of sidewheel steamer CENTRAL HUDSON ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-23
1964.660.646
View Pumping out of burned hulk; Hoboken, NJ pier fire
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.129
View Tugboat UNITY towing steamer POUGHKEEPSIE, Hudson River, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-03-21
1964.660.142
View US Army transport INGALLS capsized and sunk on dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1901-06-14
1964.660.156
View Three masted ship ashore, possibly Long Branch, NJ
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.169
View Unidentified steamship in dry dock with broken propeller
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.212
View Salvage of tug TRANSFER NO. 3
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.252
View Tug JOHN A. HUGHES ashore at Lloyds Neck, Long Island, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-11-26
1964.660.282
View Tug JOHN A. HUGHES ashore at Lloyds Neck, Long Island, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-11-26
1964.660.285
View Tug OSCEOLA, starboard view, stranded on breakwater at Piermont, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.304
View Three-masted schooner, aground?
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.307
View Sunken vessel, two schooners in distance
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.309
View Floating derrick and sunken steam canal boat S. L. CLARK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.312
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising dredge BALTIC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.326
View Starboard view of sinking tug J. H. WILLIAMS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1063
View Dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2 being raised
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-10
1964.660.348
View Raising sunken dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 2
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-10
1964.660.352
View Floating derrick working over submerged wreck in icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.353
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising tug COLUMBIA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.376
View Two derricks raising S.S. JOSE after fire
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.828
View Starboard view of steamship KAISER FRANZ JOSEPH I
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-06-15
1964.660.850
View Bark BAYARD, port view, ashore at Highlands off Navesink, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-10-11; 1903-02-09
1964.660.386
View Floating derrick raising tug NEW YORK CENTRAL NO. 22 on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-02-05
1964.660.389
View Floating derrick raising railroad barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.419
View Floating derrick RELIANCE raising railroad barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.421
View Floating derrick raising railroad barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.422
View Raising of S.S. JOSE after fire on Pier 8, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.892
View Pumping out S.S. JOSE after fire at Pier 8, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.898
View Sunken steamship, possibly small coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1107
View Floating derricks EDGAR and COLLEGIAN raising steamship, possibly coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12
1964.660.1108
View Salvage of sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN, lighter HENRY SEYMOUR
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1131
View Tugboat WALTER TRACY, sunken, port view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1135
View Ice-covered, sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1147
View 5-Masted Schooner NANCY ashore
silver print
1976.1.176.1
View S. S. ALLEGHANY, starboard view, at dock, sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.430
View S. S. ALLEGHANY, deck view, sinking at dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.432
View Derrick raising S.S. NANTUCKET, sunk, Baltimore, September 2, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.916
View S. S. NANTUCKET, capsized, Baltimore, Maryland
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.936
View Wreckage of S.S. DUNHOLME, sunk, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.939
View S. S. QUEEN LOUISE, port view, stranded on beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1175
View S. S. QUEEN LOUISE, port view, stranded on beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1176
View Floating derrick CAPITOL raising tug ELI B. CONINE, in icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1178
View Starboard view of ship A. G. ROPES, 1887, dismasted
silver print photograph
Wright, Charles Munn
1960.34.7
View Damaged launch CRUISER, port view, tugboat COLUMBIA in back
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2805
View Starboard view of steamer MOHAWK of Boston, Eastern Steamship Co., wrecked
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2574
View Sunken barges of Neptune Line and Metropolitan Coal Co.
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2601
View Unidentified wreckage at wharf
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1294
View Floating derricks raising capsized vessel HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2638
View Pumping out vessel HELL GATE, floating derricks CENTURY and MONARCH helping
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-02-16
1964.660.2642
View Unidentified New Jersey Central tugboat sunk at dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2643
View View of damaged bridge and deck of S.S. SAGUA, November 15, 1923, Nicaragua
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-11-15
1964.660.2656
View Damage to steamer BOSTON in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2957
View Men working on vessel in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2958
View Photograph of painting of steamer and sinking 4-masted schooner
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3532
View Damaged hull
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3536
View Two photos on one plate, S.S. BALABAC wreck, #2 engines, #6 looking astern from stem, January 1923
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-01-01
1964.660.2695
View Damaged hull at wharf, DUNHOLME?
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1371
View Salvage operation, sunken vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2975
View Capsized floating derrick, dry dock in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3021
View Sunken dredge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3053
View Sunken dredge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3055
View Sunken floating derrick CAPITOL, tug at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3074
View Unidentified damaged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3084
View Unidentified salvage operation, sunken and damaged vessels at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3199
View Port view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2313
View Port view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2323
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2326
View Floating derrick raising unidentified sunken vessel (barge)?
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1746
View Steamship ISLA DE PANAY sunk at pier
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1757
View Tugboat GOLDEN RULE alist, floating derricks ROSLYN and CROTON
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1784
View Starboard view, from a distance, of unidentified sunken sidewheel steamer
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1793
View Starboard view, unidentified sunken sidewheel steamer
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1794
View Sunken tugboat GLENVILLE, steamer PORT CHESTER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1805
View Capsized barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1854
View Deck view of S.S. SARATOGA, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1862
View Damaged corner of floating derrick or barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922-07-12
1964.660.2521
View Unidentified sunken vessel at wharf, floating lumber
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1618
View Unidentified sunken vessel at wharf, floating lumber, ferry boat ELLIS ISLAND
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1619
View Starboard view of S.S. SARATOGA, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1916
View Starboard view of S.S. SARATOGA, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1919
View Page 20, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser "Gladiator"; fig. 26, vessel safely berthed in Graving-Dock at Portsmouth Dockyard
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3292
View Unidentified sunken steamer at dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1951
View Damaged bow of tug PRINCESS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1972
View Steamer CHELSEA submerged
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1978
View Wreckage of dock and steamer
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3338
View Deck view of steamer CHELSEA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1981
View Unidentified vessel submerged in icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1991
View Lighter EUGENE G. of New York capsized at dock, barge SEABEACH in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1994
View Starboard bow view of unidentified steamship aground near beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2004
View Submerged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3378
View Raising of steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-04-26
1964.660.2046
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL with floating derrick, April 28, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-04-28
1964.660.2050
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL, April 28, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-04-28
1964.660.2051
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918
1964.660.2060
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2071
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL ready to be righted, June 16, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-16
1964.660.2074
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL ready to be righted, June 16, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-16
1964.660.2076
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL, July 14, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-07-14
1964.660.2079
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2087
View Damage to vessel hull
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3423
View Wharf wreckage and sunken steamship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3453
View Pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL, September 11, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-09-11
1964.660.2112
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2124
View Capsized steamship at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2130
View Unidentified wrecked vessel in dry dock; damaged hull
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2134
View Salvage of S. S. BERMUDEZ of Philadelphia
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2148
View Unidentified capsized vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2154
View Unidentified capsized vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2156
View EASTLAND DISASTER
photographic postcard
circa 1915
2014.49.179
View Side view of sunken barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2258
View Unidentified steamboat wreck
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5026
View Men on deck of ferry NORTHFIELD after collision in East River, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.5070
View Steamship AGNES listing, salvage operation, copy photograph
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5082
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, stern view
gelatin glass negative
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works
1964.660.1638
View Deck of steamer KEYPORT sunk at the Battery, New York, steamer ZEPHYR and HIGHLANDER in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1671
View View of bottom of tug GOV. FLOWER of Perth Amboy
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1683
View Port view of U.S.T. SUMNER near Barnegat, New Jersey, aground, December 13, 1916
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916-12-13
1964.660.1729
View Derrick MONARCH and lighter HENRY SEYMOUR with U.S. Army Transport RAWLINS sunk after fire at Pier 22, Brooklyn, NY, April 10, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-10
2008.28.4.314
View Ferry NORTHFIELD, sunk at Pier 10, East River, New York, NY, by collision with ferry MAUCH CHUCK, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.332
View Wreckage, presumably from ferry NORTHFIELD sunk at Pier 10, East River, New York, NY, by collision with ferry MAUCH CHUNK, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.340
View U.S. Army Transport INGALLS capsized and sunk on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.352
View Derricks raising coal elevator CLARK NO. 2 capsized and sunk off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, June 24, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-24
2008.28.4.357
View Bark LA ESCOCOESA sunk off Robbins Reef Light, NJ, March 23, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-03-23
2008.28.4.36
View Derricks raising coal elevator CLARK NO. 2 capsized and sunk off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, June 24, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-24
2008.28.4.360
View Raising bark LA ESCOCOESA sunk off Robbins Reef Light, NJ, March 23, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-03
2008.28.4.37
View Ship FLOTTBEK seen between 2 beach houses, ashore at Long Branch, NJ, November 23, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-11-23
2008.28.4.388
View Deck view of ship FLOTTBEK ashore at Long Branch, NJ, November 23, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-11-23
2008.28.4.391
View Man carry person piggyback from surfboat to beach, probably after wreck of ferry COLLEGE POINT near North Brother Island, Bronx, NY, December 13, 190
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-13
2008.28.4.397
View Damaged steam lighter CLIFFORD after collision with steamboat NEWBURGH, Hudson River, New York, December 31, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-31
2008.28.4.404
View Damaged steam lighter CLIFFORD after collision with steamboat NEWBURGH, Hudson River, New York, December 31, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-31
2008.28.4.405
View Steamer NORUMBEGA aground at Clark's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, August 1912
real photo postcard
T.A. Scott Company
1912-08
2014.49.9355
View Tugboat TASCO possibly assisting schooner EMMA SOUTHARD aground at Duck Island, CT, August 1913
gelatin silver print
T.A. Scott Company
1913-08
1965.338
View 3-Masted schooner HENRY D. MAY swamped off Stone Horse Shoal, Vineyard Sound, MA, October 13, 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-10-13
1964.576.1
View 3-Masted schooner HENRY D. MAY in Vineyard Haven after sinking in Vineyard Sound, MA, October 13, 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-10-13
1964.576.4
View 4-Masted ship COUNTY OF EDINBURGH stranded at Point Pleasant, NJ, February 12, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-12
2008.28.3.102
View Steamship GATE CITY breaking up near Moriches, NY, February, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02
2008.28.3.111
View Salvage of steamships. MAIN and BREMEN after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.125
View Steamships BREMEN and MAIN after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.129
View Maine diver, probably at pier after fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.131
View Steamship CAVOUR stranded at Long Beach, NY, January 31, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-01-31
2008.28.4.424
View Steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02
2008.28.4.46
View Steamer CEPHEUS raised, after sinking off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.100
View Schooner NELLIE BRUCE scuttled after fire in cargo of lime, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, after 1882
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
after 1882
2008.28.1.11
View Bark FELIX capsized in Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania, circa 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1892
2008.28.1.125
View Pilot schooner DAVID CARLL in slings after being raised, New York Bay, NY, September 6, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-09-06
2008.28.1.134
View Steamship BRITISH QUEEN on fire at Hoboken, NJ, March 19, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-19
1964.521.11
View British steamship DRUMELZIER ashore at Fire Island, Long Island, NY, 2 men on ice-covered deck, December 26, 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1904-12-26
1964.521.119
View Steamship BRITISH QUEEN on fire at Hoboken, NJ, March 19, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-19
1964.521.12
View Steambboat POUGHKEEPSIE ashore at Stony Point, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-21
2008.28.3.145
View Steamer POUGHKEEPSIE ashore at Stony Point, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-21
2008.28.3.147
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 27, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-27
2008.28.3.149
View Steamship OLD DOMINION stranded on rocks off Milton Point, NY, July 6, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-06
2008.28.3.174
View Tugboat ROBERT HADDON wrecked at Long Branch, NJ, November 23, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-11-23
2008.28.3.193
View British steamship ACARA aground off Jones Inlet, Long Island, NY, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.484
View British steamship ACARA aground off Jones Inlet, Long Island, NY, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.486
View British steamship ACARA aground off Jones Inlet, salvage vessel alongside, Long Island, NY, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.489
View Cracked hull of British steamship ACARA aground off Jones Inlet, Long Island, NY, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.491
View Barkentine PERSIA ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, New York, March 18, 190
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-18
2008.28.4.492
View Steamship BRITISH QUEEN listing after fire at Hoboken, NJ, March 19, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-09
2008.28.4.497
View Steamship BRITISH QUEEN on fire at Hoboken, NJ, March 19, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-09
2008.28.4.502
View Deck view of steamship BRITISH QUEEN on fire at Hoboken, NJ, March 19, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-09
2008.28.4.507
View Men on board tugboat Transfer No. 6 in dry dock after sinking in Harlem River, New York, August 8, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-08
2008.28.1.143
View US Revenue Cutter WASHINGTON sunk in New York Bay, February 27, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-02-27
2008.28.1.158
View Derricks RELIANCE and EDGAR and lighter HUSTLER raising lighter EDWIN BAILEY sunk of Coney Island, NY, April 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-04
2008.28.1.163
View Steamer CITY OF NORWALK sunk at Blackwell's Island, New York, March 30, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-30
2008.28.1.17
View Schooner ELIZA A. ANDERSON in chains alongside derrick RELIANCE, July 20, 1893
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-07-20
2008.28.1.184
View Steamship BODO ashore at Gilgo Inlet, Long Island, NY, March 20, 1906
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1906-03-20
1964.521.133
View Steamboat SARATOGA sunk in Hudson River near Barrytown, NY, October 13, 1906
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1906-10-13
1964.521.140
View Tugboat EDNA B. KING sunk at Central Railroad of New Jersey drawbridge, Hackensack River, June 27, 1907
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-06-27
1964.521.152
View Schooner TRAVELLER loaded with brownstone sunk at Thimble Islands, Connecticut, August 12, 1907
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-08-12
1964.521.159
View Steam yacht LUCILLE stranded on Governor's Island Breakwater, NY, July 3, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-07-3
1964.521.16
View Schooner TRAVELLER loaded with brownstone sunk at Thimble Islands, Connecticut, August 12, 1907
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Hatton
circa 1907-08-12
1964.521.160
View Lighter N.Y.C. LIGHTER NO. 24 sunk off Liberty Island, New York Bay, January 31, 1908
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1908-01-31
1964.521.170
View Railroad car float sunk at terminal of Brooklyn Wharf & Warehouse Co., NY, circa 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.3.28
View Steamship OTRANTO stranded at Fire Island, NY, January 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-01
2008.28.3.32
View Ferry HACKENSACK stranded on Rocks at Sunken Meadows, February 12, 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1897-02-12
2008.28.3.33
View Ferry HACKENSACK stranded on Rocks at Sunken Meadows, February 12, 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-02-12
2008.28.3.34
View British steamship ACARA broken in two off Jones Inlet, Long Island, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.529
View New York Central Lighterage Co. Barge No. 14 sunk at foot of Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 23, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-23
2008.28.4.53
View British steamship ACARA broken in two off Jones Inlet, Long Island, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.531
View New York Central Lighterage Co. Barge No. 14 sunk at foot of Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, September 23, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-23
2008.28.4.54
View Lighter HUSTLER and floating derrick MONARCH raising unidentified wreck, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.548
View Floating derrick MONARCH assisting steam yacht LUCILLE stranded on Governors Island, NY, July 3, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-07-03
2008.28.4.559
View New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Co. vessels sunk in Hudson River, New York, September 23, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-23
2008.28.4.56
View Floating derrick MONARCH assisting steam yacht LUCILLE stranded on Governors Island, NY, July 3, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-07-03
2008.28.4.560
View Schooner JESSE HART II aground, South Amboy, NJ, June 15, 1894
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-06-15
2008.28.1.209
View Floating derricks EDGAR and RELIANCE hoisting ALERT off breakwater, Glen Cove, NY, May 26, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-05-26
2008.28.1.46
View Floating derricks EDGAR and RELIANCE hoisting ALERT off breakwater, Glen Cove, NY, May 26, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-05-26
2008.28.1.47
View Damage to hull of steamship H.M. WHITNEY, sunk at Hell Gate, New York, NY, May 23, 1908
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1908-03-23
1964.521.190
View Barge RINGLEADER sunk on Flynn's Knoll, NY Bay, March 5, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-05
1964.521.2
View Derrick MONARCH raising Canal boat EUREKA sunk at Pier 42, New York, October 27, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-10-27
1964.521.20
View Tugboat OSCEOLA stranded at Piermont, NY, December 5, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-12-05
1964.521.32
View Railroad Car Float ashore at 48th Street, Brooklyn, NY, December 6, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-12-06
1964.521.34
View Barge E.W. STETSON stranded near Jamesport, Long Island, NY, November 26, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co
1898-11-26
2008.28.3.76
View Mallory Line steamship LEONA sunk at Pier 20, East River, New York, October 19, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-19
2008.28.3.93
View Tugboat and floating derrick CENTURY at unidentified salvage operation at wharf; circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.562
View Raising sunk railroad engine, circa 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1910
2008.28.4.591
View Raising sunk railroad engine, circa 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1910
2008.28.4.592
View Salvage operation, raising sunk railroad engine, circa 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1910
2008.28.4.597
View Freighter TUCKAHOE ashore at Sands Point, Long Island, NY, December 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-12
2008.28.4.60
View German bark DR. SIEGERT capsized at wharf, Brooklyn, NY, July 27, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-07-27
2008.28.1.61
View German bark DR. SIEGERT capsized at wharf, Brooklyn, NY, July 27, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-07-27
2008.28.1.63
View German bark DR. SIEGERT capsized at wharf, Brooklyn, NY, July 27, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-07-27
2008.28.1.69
View New York Central Lighterage Company barge No. 14, sunk, Brooklyn, NY, September 23, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-23
2008.28.1.70
View Recovering cargo from New York Central Lighterage Company barge No. 14, sunk, Brooklyn, NY, September 23, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-23
2008.28.1.76
View Steamer CEPHEUS sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.81
View Steamship BRIGHTON ashore at Atlantic City, NJ, March 31, 1903
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1903-03-31
1964.521.57
View Steamship BRIGHTON ashore at Atlantic City, NJ, March 31, 1903
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1903-03-31
1964.521.58
View Yawl yacht GAVIOTA ashore at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, NY, September 16, 1903
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1903-09-16
1964.521.72
View Bark BAYARD ashore at Highlands of Navesink, NJ, October 11, 1903
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1903-10-11
1964.521.79
View New York Central & Lighterage Barge No. 14 sunk at foot of Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY, September 23, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-09-23
2008.28.4.69
View Damaged freighter CITY OF NORWALK in dry dock, East River, New York, NY, April 3, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-04-03
2008.28.4.74
View Unidentified salvage operation, New York Bay, NY, circa 1896, Statue of Liberty in background
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1896
2008.28.4.76
View Floating derrick hoisting crane from DREDGE NO. 5 sunk after boiler explosion, circa 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1910
1964.518.6
View Barkentine PERSIA ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 18, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-18
1964.521.9
View Derrick CENTURY raising sunk railroad car floats, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western piers, Hoboken, NJ, 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1904
1964.521.95
View Steamboat GEN. SLOCUM burned and sunk off Hunts Point, Bronx, NY, June 15, 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1904-06-15
1964.521.97
View Damaged hull of fishing schooner RHODE ISLAND after collision, San Martins Island, Mexico, December 26, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-12-26
1962.1249.118
View Shell Oil barge MARTINEZ sunk at Raccoon Straits, San Francisco Bay, California, May, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.126
View Shell Oil barge MARTINEZ sunk at Raccoon Straits, San Francisco Bay, California, May, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.132
View Shell Oil barge MARTINEZ sunk at Raccoon Straits, San Francisco Bay, California, May, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.134
View Shell Oil barge MARTINEZ sunk at Raccoon Straits, San Francisco Bay, California, May, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.137
View Shell Oil barge MARTINEZ sunk at Raccoon Straits, San Francisco Bay, California, May, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.138
View Salvage vessels with stranded steamship DAVID C. MEYER ashore at Point Fermin, near San Pedro, California, March 12, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-03-12
1962.1249.145
View Tanker FRANK H. BUCK ashore at Point Pinos, Monterey County, California, May 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Heidrick
1924-05-03 through 1924-05-17
1962.1249.2
View Tanker TAMIAHUA ashore at Pigeon Point, California, 1930
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1930
1962.1249.34
View Salvage tugboat sunk at Bethlehem Shipbuilding dock, San Pedro, California, July 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-07
1962.1249.42
View Tanker RICHFIELD aground, Long Beach Channel, San Pedro, California, January 22, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-01-22
1962.1249.45
View Shell Oil Co. barge MARTINEZ sinking, Raccoon Strait, San Francisco Bay, California, May 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.51
View Shell Oil Co. barge MARTINEZ sinking, Raccoon Strait, San Francisco Bay, California, May 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.52
View Shell Oil Co. barge MARTINEZ sinking, Raccoon Strait, San Francisco Bay, California, May 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.54
View Damage to tanker KEKOSKEE, California
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Sunset Photo
1962.1249.67
View Tanker FRANK H. BUCK ashore at Point Pinos, deck view, Monterey County, California, May 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-03 through 1924-05-17
1962.1249.8
View Tugboat PEACOCK towing 5-masted barkentine MONFALCONE after hurricane near Colon, Panama, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923
1962.1249.86
View Steamship TAMIAHUA, stranded, probably Pigeon Point, California, 1930
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1930
1962.1249.88
View Wreck and fire, probably Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, January 9, 1901
real photo postcard, divided back
1901
2014.49.9841
View Floating derrick (probably MONARCH) raising unidentified steam yacht, circa 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1896
2008.28.4.124
View Pumping out steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02
2008.28.4.16
View Mallory Line steamship LEONA sunk at Pier 20, East River, New York, October 19, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-19
2008.28.4.167
View Raising 3-masted schooner PENOKEE (probably), Romer Shoal (NY & NJ), September 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-09
2008.28.4.171
View Pumping out steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02
2008.28.4.18
View Deck view of steamship MAIN destroyed by fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30 - 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.217
View Steamship BREMEN and lighter with load of damaged lifeboats after fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.222
View Steamship BREMEN and lighter COMRADE after fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.226
View Steamships MAIN and BREMEN after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.232
View Steamship BREMEN with floating derrick ADMIRAL and other salvage vessels after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.235
View Ferry PLAINFIELD burned and sunk off Ellis Island, New York Bay, September 14, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-09-14
2008.28.4.247
View Bark LA ESCOCOESA sunk off Robbins Reef Light, NJ, March 23, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-03-23
2008.28.4.26
View Puget Sound Tow Boat Co. tugboat GOLIAH assisting 2 vessels wrecked ashore, probably Puget Sound, WA, circa 1907-1918
real photo postcard, divided back, white border
2014.49.10263
View Tugboat FEARLESS and inter-island ferry? MAUI assisting steamship MANCHURIA off reef at Waimanalo, Oahu, Hawaii, 1906
real photo postcard
1906
2014.49.10277
View Steamship, possibly aground, snow on shore, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.270
View Steamer POUGHKEEPSIE ashore in Hudson River at Stony Point, NY, March 21, 1901, lighter RAYMOND assisting
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-21
2008.28.4.281
View 5-Masted schooner NATHANIEL T. PALMER stranded at Beach Haven, NJ, March 11, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-11
2008.28.4.288
View Steamer GWENT ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 27, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-27
2008.28.4.295
View U.S. Army Transport RAWLINS sunk after fire at Pier 22, Brooklyn, NY, April 10, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-10
2008.28.4.308
View Rescue steamer RESCUE alongside British steamship GAELIC PRINCE, October 10, 1919, after rammed by US Army Transport ANTIGONE in Ambrose Channel
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-10-10
2008.28.8.546
View Damage to unidentified steamship, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.550
View Damage to unidentified steamship, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.552
View Steamboat (tugboat?) INVINCIBLE of New York between two floating derricks, raised after sinking, probably New York Harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.555
View Pumping out dredge LEHIGH sunk at Perth Amboy, NJ, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.563
View British steamship CHICAGO CITY aground in New York harbor after collision with American steamer GEORGE H. JONES, October 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-10
2008.28.8.575
View British steamship CHICAGO CITY aground in New York harbor after collision with American steamer GEORGE H. JONES, October 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-10
2008.28.8.577
View Floating derrick COLOSSUS raising tugboat GOV. FLOWER, Clifton, Staten Island, New York, NY, November 12, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-11-12
2008.28.8.590
View Floating derrick COMMODORE assisting steamship TARANTIA, probably New York, NY, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.596
View Fireboat JAMES DUANE assisting USS DEKALB after fire on board, Spuyten Duyvil, New York, December 16, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-12-16
2008.28.8.611
View Lighter sunk in Morris Canal, NJ, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.62
View Clyde Line steamship LENAPE sunk at Pier 36, Hudson River, New York City, October 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-10
2008.28.6.106
View Steamship aground off shore
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.17
View Hoisting object from stranded steamship
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.45
View American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01
2008.28.8.629
View American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01
2008.28.8.636
View Interior view of fire damage aboard American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01
2008.28.8.637
View Floating derrick raising Central Railroad of New Jersey steam lighter #27, sunk at Yonkers, NY, January 29, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01-29
2008.28.8.665
View Old Dominion Line steamship PRINCESS ANNE aground off Rockaway Point, NY, after snowstorm, February 9, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-02-20
2008.28.8.676
View Floating derricks CONVEYOR and MONARCH raising wreck
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.6
View Steamship?, aground
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.76
View Freighter stranded
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.78
View Old Dominion Line steamship PRINCESS ANNE aground off Rockaway Point, NY, after snowstorm, February 9, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-02-20
2008.28.8.678
View Steamship SARATOGA, Schoonmaker-Conners Co. barge? alongside; probably at Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, Brooklyn, NY, July 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-07
2008.28.8.68
View Munson Line steamship MOCCASIN sunk at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-03
2008.28.8.687
View Steamship SARATOGA, Schoonmaker-Conners Co. barge? alongside; probably at Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, Brooklyn, NY, July 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-07
2008.28.8.69
View Pumping out steamship SARATOGA, probably at Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, Brooklyn, NY, July 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-07
2008.28.8.72
View Pumping out steamship BERMUDEZ after sinking at Crane's Dry Dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 16-20, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-03-16
2008.28.8.1008
View P. Sanford Ross DREDGE NO. 16 capsized at wharf, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1013
View Floating derrick COLOSSUS and another derrick raising unidentified vessel, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.733
View Barge aground at beach, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.736
View Fire aboard Norwegian steamship HALLFRIED, Pier 5, Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, NY, April 19, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-04-19
2008.28.8.738
View Fire damaged steamship, possibly related to fire at Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, NY, April 19, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.744
View Motorship MAGDALENA ashore on Klein Curacao (Little Curacao), Netherlands Antilles, February 1934 (refloated May 28, 1934)
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1934-02
1964.517.1
View Steamship CALABRIA aground in harbor at St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (U.S.V.I.), after hurricane, October 1916
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1916-10
1964.517.23
View S.S. MAUDE ashore at Matanzas, Cuba, February 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-02
1964.517.24
View Floating derricks raising submarine S-48 sunk off Penfield Reef, Fairfield County, CT, Long Island Sound, December 7, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-12-07
1964.517.29
View Vessel with damaged bow in dry dock
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.517.35
View Vessel in dry dock
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.517.36
View Floating derrick MONARCH hoisting bow of steamship FLORIDA, March? 23, 1909
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1909-03-23
1964.517.38
View Two tugboats sunk at wharf, floating derrick CENTURY in background, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1063
View Raising capsized vessel, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.779
View Floating derrick CHIEF assisting vessel sunk at US Army Transport Service Pier 3, probably New York, NY, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.792
View Lighter RESOLUTE and floating derrick COMMODORE assisting steamship MANCHURIA sunk at Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, June 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-06
2008.28.8.8
View Tanker JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER aground off Tampico, Mexico, 1919-1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-1920
2008.28.8.800
View Tanker JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER at Robins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, 1920, after being aground near Tampico, Mexico, December 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920
2008.28.8.805
View Tanker JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER at Robins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, 1920, after being aground near Tampico, Mexico, December 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.808
View Tanker JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER at Robins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, 1920, after being aground near Tampico, Mexico, December 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920
2008.28.8.809
View C.L. Taylor & Co., Dredge No. 1 sunk, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.821
View PROMISED LAND? aground off shore
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.545.2
View Men standing on deck of damaged vessel, possibly steamer PROMISED LAND
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.545.4
View Steamship CRISFIELD aground, July 18, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-07-18
2008.28.8.1099
View Steamship KERSHAW capsized at wharf, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10-15
2008.28.8.842
View Floating derrick assisting steamship KERSHAW capsized at wharf, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10-15
2008.28.8.844
View Steamship KERSHAW raised after capsizing at wharf, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10-15
2008.28.8.848
View Pumping out steamship KERSHAW raised after capsizing at wharf, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10-15
2008.28.8.851
View Houseboat? sunk near shore, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.853
View Lighter WM. E. CHAPMAN assisting sidewheel steamer CATSKILL sunk in Hudson River, NY, September 15, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-09-15
1964.520.100
View Floating derricks MONARCH and WILL raising sidewheel steamer CATSKILL sunk in Hudson River, September 15, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-09-15
1964.520.105
View Clyde Line steamship ONEIDA sunk beside Pier 29, East River, New York, NY, next to Brooklyn Bridge, September 21, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-09-21
1964.520.115
View Men in front of shacks on beach, probably involved with salvage of steamship ARGONNE at Morant Cays, Jamaica, July 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-07
2008.28.8.88
View Equipment, probably on board barge? CRAB, probably New York, NY, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.920
View Floating derrick MONARCH assisting steamer ULSTER after sinking in Hudson River, near Cornwall, NY, November 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-11
1964.520.148
View Steamer ULSTER sunk in Hudson River, near railroad tracks, near Cornwall, NY, November 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-11
1964.520.158
View Taylor Dredging Corporation dredge capsized, New York Harbor, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.16
View Norwegian bark SORSTAD, capsized in icy harbor after rammed by tugboat, January 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-01
2008.28.8.162
View Deck view of damaged vessel, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.181
View C.L. Taylor & Co., Dredge No. 1 sunk, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.928
View C.L. Taylor & Co., Dredge No. 1 sunk, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.932
View Floating derrick CONTINENTAL? assisting tugboat? in New York harbor, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.938
View Floating derrick CONTINENTAL? assisting tugboat? in New York harbor, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.939
View Tugboat IMMIGRANT sunk off Ellis Island, New York Bay, January 24, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-01-24
2008.28.8.955
View Floating derrick ADVANCE sunk at Yonkers, NY, January 21, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-01-21
2008.28.8.966
View Steamer ISLANDER ashore at Rikers Island, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.97
View Floating derrick MONARCH probably assisting steamboat ERICSSON sunk in Delaware River, February 26, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-02-16
1964.520.184
View Wreck of battleship U.S.S. MAINE, Havana, Cuba, February 15, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-02-15
1964.520.191
View Floating derrick raising steamboat ERIKSSON sunk in Delaware River, February 26, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-02
1964.520.200
View Floating derrick assisting steamer CITY OF WORCESTER partly submerged in Thames River, New London, CT, May 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05
1964.520.208
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising Morris & Cummings Dredge No. 12 off Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 29, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-06-29
1964.520.218
View Damaged vessel in dry dock, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.184
View Steamship SUSQUEHANNA ashore at Barnegat, NJ, March 7, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-03-07
2008.28.8.199
View Steamer POINT COMFORT sunk, probably at Esopus Island, Hudson River, NY, September 18, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-09-18
2008.28.8.208
View Lighter HENRY SEYMOUR and tugboat EDGAR BAXTER assisting steamship HUTTONWOOD off Brooklyn, NY, after explosion on August 6, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-08-06
2008.28.8.226
View Salvage vessels assisting steamship HUTTONWOOD off Brooklyn, NY, after explosion in hold on August 6, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-08-06
2008.28.8.228
View Tugboat ROGER WILLIAMS assisting barge NEW JERSEY sunk at Pier 44 in East River, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.99
View Schooner yacht ALSACIENNE sunk at Port Jefferson, NY, during storm of November 26-27, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-11-26
1964.520.227
View Floating derrick RELIANCE raising sidewheel steamer JOHN E. MOORE from Romer Shoals, November 26, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-11-26
1964.520.23
View Schooner barge E.W. STETSON stranded near Jamesport, Long Island, NY, November 26, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-11-26
1964.520.231
View Schooner FLORENCE sunk, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.249
View 3-Masted schooner GEORGE E. DUDLEY ashore on Shippan Point, near Stamford, CT, Long Island Sound, December 24, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-12-24
1964.520.25
View 3-Masted schooner sunk, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.261
View Lighter CHAMPION assisting steamship ST. PAUL sunk at wharf, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.256
View Letter from Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co. to American Line concerning raising steamship ST. PAUL, dated June 18, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-06-18
2008.28.8.262
View American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, after capsizing on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.279
View Ship SARATOGA probably at Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, Brooklyn, NY, July 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-07
2008.28.8.28
View Sloop aground off shore, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.291
View 4-Masted schooner GYPSUM EMPEROR of Windsor, Nova Scotia, grounded at Bonnet Point, near Saunderstown, RI, November 23, 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-11-23
1964.520.299
View Lighter? POTOMAC sunk in ice waters at pier, circa 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1899
1964.520.310
View American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.295
View Apparatus for raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL June 16, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-06-16
2008.28.8.300
View Floating derricks raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.307
View Apparatus for raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.309
View Pumping out American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.329
View Floating derrick assisting steamer MORGAN ashore, probably off Governors Island, New York harbor, May 9, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-05-09
1964.520.52
View Tugboat GEORGE L. GARLICK in chains of floating derrick RELIANCE after being ashore on Rockaway, Long Island, NY, May 25, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-05
1964.520.58
View Tugboat GEORGE L. GARLICK in dry dock at Downing & Lawrence, Brooklyn, NY, May 27, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-05-27
1964.520.64
View 3-Masted schooner CARRIE T. BELANO ashore on Romer Shoal (NJ-NY), July 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-07
1964.520.66
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising sunk vessel, probably steamship AILSA, circa 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1897
1964.520.68
View Lighter CHAMPION and tugboat EDGAR BAXTER at site of raising steamship ST. PAUL, after capsizing at pier, New York, NY, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.333
View Floating derricks assisting at raising steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.338
View Army transport steamship AMERICA sunk at Pier 3, Hoboken, NJ, October 14, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-10-14
2008.28.8.342
View Army transport steamship AMERICA sunk at Pier 3, Hoboken, NJ, October 14, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-10-18
2008.28.8.346
View Pumping out Army transport steamship AMERICA sunk at Pier 3, Hoboken, NJ, October, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-10
2008.28.8.366
View Floating derrick CENTURY assisting tugboat EDWIN TERRY sunk in Hudson River, August 28, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-08-28
2008.28.8.37
View Steamboat listing to port, 2 men standing on deck of rescue vessel alongside, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.379
View Steamer CITY OF WORCESTER submerged in Thames River, New London, CT, lighter HUSTLER and salvage vessels alongside, May 29, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-29
1964.520.84
View Men at work on wreck of battleship U.S.S. MAINE, Havana, Cuba, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898
1964.520.93
View Sidewheel steamer CATSKILL sunk in Hudson River, NY, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897
1964.520.97
View Steamship CITY OF LAHORE, sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, NY, November 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-11
2008.28.8.383
View Steamship CITY OF LAHORE, sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, NY, November 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-11
2008.28.8.384
View Vessels assisting steamship MANCHURIA sunk at Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, June 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-06
2008.28.8.4
View Steamship listing at pier, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.402
View Steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, February, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.416
View Steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, February, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.419
View Floating derrick COMMONWEALTH assisting steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, February, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.422
View Canadian freighter LORD DUFFERIN sunk in New York Harbor, after being rammed by steamship AQUITANIA on February 28, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.428
View Unloading cargo ship WAUBESA in New York Harbor, after collision with ferry boats QUEENS and MAYOR GAYNOR in fog on March 17, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-03
2008.28.8.440
View Deck view of badly damaged towing steamer WM. A. JAMISON sunk, probably New York Harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.449
View Lighter AMERICANA aground, probably in the Hudson River, NY, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.450
View Raising steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, June 3, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-06-03
2008.28.8.463
View Pumping out steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, June 3, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-06-03
2008.28.8.467
View Floating derrick CONQUEROR aground in harbor, large reels on deck, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.475
View Floating derrick CONQUEROR aground in harbor, large reels on deck, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.477
View Raising 4-masted schooner DUSTIN G. CRESSY off Governors Island, after collision with steamship VALERIA, February 19, 1917
real photo postcard, divided back
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-19
2014.49.9459
View 4-Masted schooner DUSTIN G. CRESSY capsized off Governors Island, after collision with steamship VALERIA, February 19, 1917
real photo postcard, divided back
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-19
2014.49.9460
View Tugboat FAVORITE assisting capsized railroad ferry ANN ARBOR NO. 4 after loading mishap, Manistique, Michigan, Lake Michigan, 1909
real photo postcard, divided back
1909
2014.49.10434
View Steamship CAPE COD in dry dock, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.359
View Steamship BALABAC wreck, Mucurapo Point, Trinidad and Tobago, January 1923
copy gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-01
2008.28.5.362
View 4-Masted schooner ADA TOWER ashore at Fire Island, Long Island, NY, May 23, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-05-23
2008.28.5.370
View Damaged launch CRUISER, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.385
View Rock Plaster Manufacturing Co. steamboat ROBERT L. STEVENS sunk at dock, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.386
View Rock Plaster Manufacturing Co. steamboat ROBERT L. STEVENS sunk at dock, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.387
View Rock Plaster Manufacturing Co. steamboat ROBERT L. STEVENS sunk at dock, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.388
View 4-Masted schooner FOREST CITY of Savannah sunk near Vineyard Haven, MA, April 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-04
1964.569.2
View 4-Masted schooner FOREST CITY of Savannah sunk near Vineyard Haven, MA, April 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-04
1964.569.3
View Tugboat MARY ARNOLD sunk at the entrance to Cape Cod Canal, Buzzards Bay, MA, on June 16, 1913
photographic postcard
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-06
1964.570
View Steamship MUNARGO aground, with floating derrick assisting, Nuevitas Harbor, Cuba, November 7, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-11-07
2008.28.5.528
View Tugboat JERSEY CENTRAL sunk off Communipaw, Jersey City, New Jersey, February 15, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-02-15
2008.28.5.579
View Steamship LIBERTY aground, New York Bay, April 3, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04-03
2008.28.5.593
View Steamers GRAND REPUBLIC, HIGHLANDER, and NASSAU burned and sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, April 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04
2008.28.5.609
View Pumping out at dry dock, Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY, May 14, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-14
2008.28.5.626
View Iron Steamboat Company pier damaged by fire, Hudson River, New York, May 28, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-28
2008.28.5.627
View Tanker FRANK H. BUCK on the rocks, two people in breeches buoy, Monterey Bay, California, May 4, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-04
2008.28.5.630
View Floating derrick CORPORAL (or CORPORATION) sunk at dry dock, Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY, May 23, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-23
2008.28.5.632
View Floating derrick CORPORAL (or CORPORATION) sunk at dry dock, Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY, May 23, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-23
2008.28.5.635
View Vessels assisting steamship EGREMONT CASTLE sunk on Red Hook Flats, Brooklyn, NY, June 26, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-06-26
2008.28.5.646
View Steamship BOSTON in dry dock July-August 1924, after collision with tanker SWIFTARROW off Point Judith, RI, July 21, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-07-28 through 1924-08-04
2008.28.5.660
View Damaged oil carrier F.D. ASCHE in dry dock at Robbins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, September 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-09
2008.28.5.7
View Fire damaged lighter DAYTON, November 18, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-11-18
2008.28.5.709
View Fire damaged lighter DAYTON, November 18, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-11-18
2008.28.5.710
View Man on deck of floating derrick MONARCH during raising of tugboat TRANSFER NO. 5, New York, NY, December, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-12-29
2008.28.5.729
View Motor yacht VEDETTE sunk at foot of Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, January 22, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-01-22
2008.28.5.753
View Deck view of steamship JUANITA aground on San Juan Cay, Venezuela, January 10, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-01-10
2008.28.5.765
View Steamship JUANITA aground on San Juan Cay, Venezuela, January 10, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-01-10
2008.28.5.767
View Floating derrick raising tugboat O'BRIEN sunk in harbor, probably New York, NY, circa 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1925
2008.28.5.789
View Damaged oil carrier F.D. ASCHE in dry dock at Robbins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, September 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-09
2008.28.5.9
View Steamer CITY OF BROCKTON aground in Hell Gate, New York, April 6, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-04-06
2008.28.5.105
View British steamship ANDREE sunk in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.122
View Deck view of damaged oil carrier F.D. ASCHE in dry dock at Robbins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, September 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-09
2008.28.5.14
View Floating derrick CONTINENTAL and tugboat ARAL assisting British steamship ANDREE sunk in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.157
View Deck view of training ship GRANITE STATE after fire of May 23, 1921, at New York pier
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-05-23
2008.28.5.17
View Four men standing in front of twisted metal, possibly from British steamship ANDREE after sinking in Delaware River, May 192
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.171
View Damaged bridge, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922
2008.28.5.173
View Damaged training ship GRANITE STATE after fire of May 23, 1921, at New York pier
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-05-23
2008.28.5.19
View Floating derrick and badly damaged training ship GRANITE STATE after fire of May 23, 1921, at New York pier
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-05-23
2008.28.5.21
View Barge WINCECO of Greenport, ashore off New Rochelle, NY, September 1, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-09-01
2008.28.5.220
View Barge WINCECO of Greenport, ashore off New Rochelle, NY, September 1, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-09-01
2008.28.5.221
View Dredge HELL GATE sunk off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, December, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-12
2008.28.5.244
View Floating derricks raising tugboat BARRENFORK sunk at Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.251
View Floating derricks raising tugboat BARRENFORK sunk at Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.252
View Floating derrick CENTURY and unidentified sunk vessel, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.272
View Deck of unidentified vessel, with heavy machinery, tugboat ALERT in background, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.274
View Man on deck of tanker SWIFTSTAR stranded off Block Island, RI, October 11, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-10-11
2008.28.5.280
View Newspaper article about sinking of steamship HERBERT L. PRATT by U-boat off Cape Henlopen, Delaware, May 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-05-06
2008.28.5.284
View Tanker SWIFTSTAR in dry dock after running aground off Block Island, Rhode Island, October 11, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-10-11 after
2008.28.5.286
View Steamship WEST CALUMB sunk at pier 16, Brooklyn, NY, January 12, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-01-12
2008.28.5.293
View Steamer BELFAST rammed into Sagamore Bridge, Cape Cod Canal, April 1919
real photo postcard, white border
1919-04-16
2014.49.9811
View Pumping out steamship SAGUA, Hoboken, New Jersey, February 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-02
2008.28.5.324
View Floating derricks raising submarine S-48 sunk during builder's trials, off Penfield Reef, Fairfield County, CT, Long Island Sound, December 7, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-12-07
2008.28.5.33
View Damaged hull of steamship SANTA MARTA at Robins Dry Dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, May 13-14, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-05-13; 1923-05-14
2008.28.5.339
View Steamship BUCKLEIGH ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 24, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-03-24
2008.28.5.347
View Bark EMMA T. CROWELL at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, after fire off Fire Island, New York, July 1894
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07
2008.28.2.38
View Derrick RELIANCE and lighter HUSTLER at Lackawanna Valley Railroad locomotive accident, Jersey City, NJ, September 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-09
2008.28.2.44
View Derrick RELIANCE lifting Lackawanna Valley Railroad locomotive after accident, Jersey City, NJ, September 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-09
2008.28.2.45
View Ship GLENESSLIN after fire, Brooklyn, NY, September 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-09-23
2008.28.2.50
View Dredge ERIE sunk at 26th Street, East River, New York, NY, October 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-10
2008.28.2.58
View Three-masted schooner EMMA M. COOK sunk in New Haven harbor, CT, December 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-12-01
2008.28.2.75
View Schooner PHIL SHERIDAN ashore at Sands Point, Long Island Sound, NY, December 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-12
2008.28.2.94
View Derrick EDGAR pumping out tugboat REINDEER at Hoboken, NJ, February 4, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-02-04
2008.28.2.104
View Steamer SANKATY ashore off Wilburs Point, Sconticut Neck, near New Bedford, MA, February 21, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-21
1964.586.7
View Steamer SANKATY ashore off Wilburs Point, Sconticut Neck, near New Bedford, MA, February 21, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-21
1964.585.1
View Steamer CONTINENTAL ashore at Ward's Island, East River, New York, NY, April 14, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-04-14
2008.28.2.114
View Steamship MANHATTAN aground, Hunts Point, Bronx, New York, NY, June 6, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-06-06
2008.28.2.126
View British 4-masted bark CARNIEHILL after fire, derrick RELIANCE alongside, in New York Bay off Governors Island, August 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08
2008.28.2.135
View Derricks MONARCH and RELIANCE with chains to lift sunken dredge FLOOD ROCK, Hell Gate, New York, NY, August 13, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08-13
2008.28.2.150
View Floating derrick RELIANCE and barge IOWA at Thomas Morgan Grain Co. wharf, Newtown Creek, New York, NY, September 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-09
2008.28.2.162
View Floating derrick RELIANCE lifting canal boat HON. EDWARD WEMPLE off Duck Island, Hudson River, New York, NY, September 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-09
2008.28.2.164
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, deck view after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.2
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.7
View Floating derrick RELIANCE lifting canal boat HON. EDWARD WEMPLE off Duck Island, Hudson River, New York, NY, September 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-09
2008.28.2.165
View Barney Dumping boat ashore at Gravesend Bay, NY, December 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-12
2008.28.2.175
View Floating derrick MONARCH hoisting schooner METEOR, Brooklyn, NY, January 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-01
2008.28.2.176
View Ship J.B. WALKER at wharf, Governor's Island, New York, NY, February 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-02-05
2008.28.2.184
View Steamship EL DORADO stranded in New York Harbor, NY, February 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-02
2008.28.2.188
View Barge IMPERIAL ashore near Barnegat, NJ, April 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-04
2008.28.2.207
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.1
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.2
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.540.5
View Floating derrick MONARCH carrying floating grain elevator CERES to coal docks, Jersey City, NJ, August 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-08
2008.28.2.221
View Floating grain elevator CERES and lighter WM. E. CHAPMAN, August 15, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-08-15
2008.28.2.236
View Floating derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH on either side of submerged steamboat ROSEDALE, East River, New York City, September 4, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-09-04
2008.28.2.244
View View from shore of tugboat and stranded vessel, another vessel in distance, Cape Cod, MA, winter 1907
real photo postcard, divided back
Rotograph Co.
1907
2014.49.1931
View Tugboat MONARCH and other vessels ashore after storm, Pensacola, Florida, 1906
real photo postcard, white border
1906
2014.49.2236
View Sunken vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1020
View Sunken yacht VEDETTE with stern out of water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1219
View Floating derrick turning over capsized vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.475
View Bow view of steam yacht aground; tugs
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.461
View Sunken steamboat TREMONT; floating derrick MONARCH, 1904
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1904-02-08
1964.660.494
View Damaged boat equipment from steamboat TREMONT
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1904-02-08
1964.660.500
View Sidewheel steamer PORT MORRIS (ferry) on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.505
View Raising sunken cattleboat CHELSEA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-03-07
1964.660.559
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising dredge PACIFIC, Delaware Bay, January 5, 1897
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1897-01-05
1964.660.69
View Barge INDEPENDENT being floated off Riverhead, Long Island, NY
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1899-04-25
1964.660.75
View Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-02
1964.660.579
View S.S. PRINZESS IRENE, starboard view, ashore at Fire Island Beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-06
1964.660.585
View S.S. PRINZESS IRENE, bow view, ashore at Fire Island Beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-06
1964.660.590
View S.S. PRINZESS IRENE, starboard view, ashore at Fire Island Beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-06
1964.660.596
View Derrick MONARCH raising B&O lighter POTOMAC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-04-26
1964.660.603
View Derrick MONARCH raising B&O lighter POTOMAC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-04-26
1964.660.604
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising B&0 lighter POTOMAC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-04-26
1964.660.607
View Pumping out B&O lighter POTOMAC sunk at St. George, Staten Island
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-04-26
1964.660.608
View Steamship BREMEN at Hoboken, NJ, pier fire, June 30, 1900
glass negative
1900-06-30
1964.660.95
View Port view of Belmont's sloop (catboat) ashore at Sandy Hook Beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-23
1964.660.617
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising B&O lighter POTOMAC
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1910-04-26
1964.660.620
View Derrick raising tug McCALDIN BROS. after sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-02
1964.660.622
View Starboard view of sidewheel steamer CENTRAL HUDSON ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-23
1964.660.645
View Unidentified salvage operation in harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.134
View Unidentified salvage operation in harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.137
View Steamer POUGHKEEPSIE ashore at Stony Point, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-03-21
1964.660.140
View Raising of ferry boat NORTHFIELD, East River, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.151
View S. S. HERO ashore at Colon, California
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-12-31
1964.660.179
View S.S. HERO ashore at Colon, Colombia, December 31, 1902
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-12-31
1964.660.180
View S. S. HERO ashore at Colon, California
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-12-31
1964.660.181
View Three-masted schooner barge LICHTENFELS BROS. sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-02-22
1964.660.198
View Sidewheel steamer JOHN SYLVESTER with steam derrick COMMISSIONER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-08-04
1964.660.729
View Sinking tug TRANSFER NO. 3, starboard view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.254
View Sinking tug TRANSFER NO. 3, stern view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.255
View Tug JOHN A. HUGHES ashore at Lloyds Neck, L.I., NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-11-26
1964.660.283
View Raising dredge BALTIC sunk in Delaware River
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.327
View Raising dredge BALTIC from Delaware River
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-04
1964.660.332
View Railroad car float #36 on rocks at Sunken Meadow, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.335
View Pumping out railroad car float #36, Sunken Meadow, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.336
View S.S. RODA, port view, ashore at Jones Beach, Long Island, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.792
View Three-masted vessel aground and under tow (barge?)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.812
View Starboard view of sinking tug J.H. WILLIAMS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1060
View S. S. BRIGHTON, bow view, ashore, Atlantic City, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-03-31
1964.660.412
View S. S. BRIGHTON, starboard view, ashore at Atlantic City, NJ
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-03-31
1964.660.416
View S. S. ALLEGHANY aground, port view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.426
View Raising of S.S. JOSE after fire at Pier 8, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.893
View Unidentified sunken steam vessel, "K" on stack
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1118
View Coastal steamer GRECIAN, sunken and ice-covered
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1139
View Sunken sidewheel steamer PERSEUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.910
View Wrecked S. S. DUNHOLME, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.933
View S. S. NANTUCKET, capsized, Baltimore, Maryland
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-09-02
1964.660.935
View S.S. NICHOLAS CUNEO ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, February 4, 1913
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-02-04
1964.660.984
View Sunken tug JAMES BROS.(?) sunk in icy waters
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1185
View Tug sunk in icy waters at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1188
View Sidewheel steamer IROQUOIS (Manhattan Line, New York-Albany), bow run ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1194
View Copy photo, wrecked destroyers U.S.S. CHAUNCEY, YOUNG and WOODBURY, Santa Barbara, CA, 1923
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-09
1964.660.2766
View Twelve salvage scenes
gelatin negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.5091
View Sunken barges of Neptune Line and Metropolitan Coal Co., in harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2598
View Sunken barges of Neptune Line and Metropolitan Coal Company
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2600
View Sunken vessel, HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2605
View Stern view of floating derrick CENTURY and unidentified sunken wreck at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2614
View Sunken dredge, yacht mooring in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1284
View Sunken dredge, yacht mooring in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1286
View Derrick CENTURY raising capsized vessel HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2635
View Capsized vessel HELL GATE being raised
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2636
View Pumping out capsized vessel HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-02-16
1964.660.2641
View Raising S.S. SAGUA from icy waters, November 15, 1923, in Nicaragua
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-11-15
1964.660.2646
View Raising of S.S. SAGUA, November 15, 1923, Nicaragua
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-11-15
1964.660.2654
View Bow view, W.H. & Co. steamship ...MANOR partially sunk at wharf, floating derrick WILL at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1332
View Starboard view of S.S. PRESTON from Bergen, Norway, sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1339
View View of sinking tugboat EDW. C. MURRAY at Jay Street Terminal, Brooklyn, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1358
View Sunken tugboat P. RAYMOND
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3538
View Unidentified salvage scene, steamer I. J. MERRITT beside damaged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4862
View Two copy photos on one plate, S.S. BALABAC wreck, January 1923, #3 starboard side of main engines, #5 port side abaft main engines
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-01-01
1964.660.2697
View Damaged hull of DUNHOLME(?) at wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1372
View View of port side of unidentified sunken steamship
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1395
View Capsized floating derrick, dry dock in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3020
View Tug (?) ROBT. L. STEVENS of Rock Plaster Manufacturing Co., sunk, bow view, with sand bags
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2712
View Stern view of motor yacht ALANNA of New York, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1438
View Sunken steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM, port view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1440
View People on top of deck house of steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1442
View Pumping out steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM, tug CRESCENT at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1447
View Pumping out steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1452
View Pumping out steamboat GENERAL McCALLUM
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1455
View Salvage operation, twisted metal from damaged vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3210
View Newspaper photo concerning crash of S.S. MUNDELTA and EDWARD PIERCE in Boston Harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1924-09
1964.660.3005
View S.S. LENAPE aground and sunk at Clyde Line Pier 36
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2298
View Bow view of S.S. LENAPE aground and sunk at pier
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2299
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2300
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk, S. S. ARAPAHOE behind
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2303
View Pumping out S.S. LENAPE, COMMISSIONER aside
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1921-10
1964.660.2307
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, salvage operation; HENRY SEYMOUR
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2329
View Port view, sunken lighter RUDOLPH BROTHERS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1775
View Sunken lighter RUDOLPH BROTHERS, bow view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1777
View Sunken two-masted vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1500
View Unidentified sunken tugboat, Phoenix Sand and Gravel Co. barges
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1917-03-21
1964.660.1787
View Port view, unidentified sunken sidewheel steamer
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1795
View Deck of unidentified vessel, awash
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1836
View Two unidentified vessels, sunk, lighter RESOLUTE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1838
View Port view of sinking of small steamboat
gelatin glass negative
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.660.1588
View Bow view of S.S. SARATOGA, sunk, lighter HUSTLER
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1860
View Derelict vessel, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2529
View Unidentified sunken vessel at wharf, floating lumber
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1617
View Starboard view of S.S. SARATOGA, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1909
View Starboard stern view of S.S. SARATOGA, sunk, lighter CHIEF and JOHN W. CHITTENDEN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1910
View Damaged dock and vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3297
View Starboard view of sunken tug IRA M. HEDGES
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1963
View Unidentified vessel submerged in icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1992
View Port stern view of unidentified steamship aground near beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1998
View Wharf and steamship wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3399
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2067
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2069
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2077
View Righting and pumping out capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2088
View Righting and pumping out of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2092
View Damaged hull, unidentified wrecked vessel in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2133
View Salvage of S.S. BERMUDEZ of Philadelphia
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2145
View Salvage of S. S. BERMUDEZ of Philadelphia
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2146
View Tugboat aground and capsized, derelict vessels on shore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2226
View Salvage of steamboat SARATOGA, sunk in Hudson River, near Tarrytown, October 13, 1906, tugboats
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1906-10-13
1964.660.5044
View Salvage of S.S. MAIN and S.S. BREMEN after pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.5062
View Steamboat CITY OF CINCINNATI listing to starboard at dock
nitrate negative
1890s
2005.91
View Steamer KEYPORT, bow view, sunk at the Battery, New York, floating derrick MONARCH at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1666
View Steamer KEYPORT, bow view, sunk at the Battery, New York, floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1667
View Steamer KEYPORT, bow view, sunk at the Battery, New York, floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1668
View Steamer KEYPORT, bow view, sunk at the Battery, New York, with floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1669
View Steamer KEYPORT, bow view, sunk at the Battery, New York, with floating derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1670
View View of bottom of tug GOV. FLOWER of Perth Amboy, on its side
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1685
View Lehigh Valley railroad barge 27 and Pennsylvania railroad barge 232 in collision
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1743
View U.S. Army Transport INGALLS capsized and sunk on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.348
View U.S. Army Transport INGALLS capsized and sunk on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.349
View Ship COMMODORE T.H. ALLEN? on fire off Sandy Hook, NJ, July 18, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-18
2008.28.4.355
View Derricks raising coal elevator CLARK NO. 2 capsized and sunk off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, June 24, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-24
2008.28.4.358
View Steamship OLD DOMINION stranded on rocks off Milton Point, NY, July 6, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-06
2008.28.4.365
View Steamship OLD DOMINION stranded on rocks off Milton Point, NY, July 6, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-06
2008.28.4.366
View Lighter CHAMPION raising yacht VENITZIA sunk off Captains Island, CT, Long Island Sound, July 19, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-19
2008.28.4.368
View Raising bark LA ESCOCOESA sunk off Robbins Reef Light, NJ, March 23, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-03
2008.28.4.38
View Ship FLOTTBEK ashore at Long Branch, NJ, November 23, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-11-23
2008.28.4.387
View Bark LA ESCOCOESA sunk off Robbins Reef Light, NJ, March 23, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-03
2008.28.4.39
View Raising bark LA ESCOCOESA sunk off Robbins Reef Light, NJ, March 23, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-03
2008.28.4.40
View Pumping out ferry COLLEGE POINT wrecked near North Brother Island, Bronx, New York, December 13, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-13
2008.28.4.401
View Derrick RELIANCE lifting N.Y., N.H. & H. Railroad cars from railroad car float which ran ashore at Oak Point, NY, January 26, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-01-26
2008.28.4.409
View Steamer NORUMBEGA aground at Clark's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, August 1912
real photo postcard
1912-08
2014.49.9350
View Steamer NORUMBEGA aground at Clark's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, August 1912
real photo postcard
1912-08
2014.49.9353
View Schooner B.H. WARFORD, possibly aground in Taunton River, near Ware, MA, October 1913
gelatin silver print
T.A. Scott Company
1913-10
1965.341
View 3-Masted schooner HENRY D. MAY swamped off Stone Horse Shoal, Vineyard Sound, MA, October 13, 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1913-10-13
1964.576.2
View BARGE NO. 21 ashore on Naushon Island, MA, after colliding with steamer CITY OF GLOUCESTER, September 1916
photographic postcard
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1916-09
1964.583.2
View 4-Masted ship COUNTY OF EDINBURGH stranded at Point Pleasant, NJ, February 12, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-12
2008.28.3.103
View Steamship MAIN, deck view, after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.119
View Salvage of steamships MAIN and BREMEN after pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.121
View Steamship BREMEN on Weehawken Banks after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.123
View Steamship BREMEN, upper deck, on Weehawken Banks, after Hoboken, NJ, fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.124
View Steamboat CITY of FALL RIVER, bow stove in by collision, October 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-10-30
2008.28.3.132
View Schooner NATHANIEL T. PALMER stranded at Beach Haven, NJ, March 11, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-11
2008.28.3.143
View Steamship HERO ashore at Colon, Colombia, December 31, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-31
2008.28.4.420
View Steamship HERO ashore at Colon, Colombia, December 31, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-31
2008.28.4.422
View Ship L. SCHEPP stranded off Long Beach, Long Island, NY, February 3, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-02-03
2008.28.4.427
View Canal boat or barge on deck of steamship MELBOURNE, New York, NY, February 18, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-02-18
2008.28.4.448
View Schooner NELLIE BRUCE scuttled after fire in cargo of lime, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, after 1882
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
after 1882
2008.28.1.12
View Putting out fire on US Army Transport RAWLINS at Pier 22, Brooklyn, NY, April 10, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-10
2008.28.3.155
View Schooner MOLA ashore off Chadwick, NJ, April 20, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-20
2008.28.3.156
View Schooner MOLA ashore off Chadwick, NJ, April 20, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-20
2008.28.3.157
View Yacht VENITZIA sunk off Captains Island, Long Island Sound, July 19, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-19
2008.28.3.179
View Raising lighter MIDAS sunk at Pier 40, New York, February 3, 1895
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-02-03
2008.28.3.18
View 3-Masted schooner LUCY W. SNOW stranded at Moriches, Long Island, September 11, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-09-11
2008.28.3.186
View 3-Masted schooner barge LICHTENFELS BROS. sinking, New York Bay, February 22, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-02-22
2008.28.4.470
View 3-Masted coal schooner barge RINGLEADER sunk on Flynn's Knoll, New York Bay, March 5, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-05
2008.28.4.479
View Steamship BRITISH QUEEN listing after fire at Hoboken, NJ, March 19, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-09
2008.28.4.500
View Steamship BRITISH QUEEN after fire at Hoboken, NJ, March 19, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-09
2008.28.4.505
View Tugboat Transfer No. 6 after sinking in Harlem River, New York, August 8, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-08
2008.28.1.142
View Barney Dumping Boat No. 2 sunk off Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn, NY, December 13, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-12-13
2008.28.1.149
View Derrick alongside brig HIGHLANDER ashore near Fishers Island, NY, February 14, 1893
copy gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-02-14
2008.28.1.153
View 4-Masted schooner WM. JOHNSON sunk after collision with steamship CONCHO, Jersey Flats, New York Bay, March 1, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-03-01
2008.28.1.154
View Pilot schooner JOSEPH F. LOUBAT hauled out, after running ashore in fog off Amagansett, NY, January 1, 1894
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-01-20
2008.28.1.177
View Steamship VINCENZO BONANO ashore at Fire Island, Long Island, NY, June 17, 1906
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1906-06-17
1964.521.138
View British freighter GOWANBURN ashore at Blue Point, Long Island, NY, March 20, 1907
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-03-20
1964.521.150
View 4-Masted schooner MILES M. MERRY stranded at Moriches, Long Island, NY, September 11, 1907
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-09-11
1964.521.158
View CITY OF NORWALK after collision with NYNH & HRR car float, Blackwells Island (Welfare Island, NY)
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.3.2
View Bark SINDIA, deck view, ashore at Ocean City, NJ, December 15, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-15
2008.28.3.201
View Barge LICHTENFELS BROS sunk on Flynn's Knoll, NY Harbor, February 22, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-02-22
2008.28.3.218
View Steamer TILLIE ashore at Fishers Island, NY, July 30 - August 1, 1896
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1896-08-01
2008.28.3.24
View Steamboat ROSEDALE sunk on reef at foot Broome St., New York, NY, September 3, 1896
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-09-03
2008.28.3.25
View Coastal steamer HERMAN WINTER sunk at Pier 11, Hudson River, NY, circa 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.3.27
View Steamboat JOHN E. MOORE recovered from Romer Shoals, November 26, 1896
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1896-11-26
2008.28.3.29
View Steamboat ULSTER ashore and sunk near Cornwall, NY, November 12, 1897
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-11-12
2008.28.3.45
View Derrick hoisting railroad car, probably recovering Central Railroad of New Jersey cars lost overboard at drawbridge, Newark Bay, NJ, April 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-04
2008.28.4.513
View Steamship in dry dock, view of broken propeller, circa 1903
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1903
2008.28.4.518
View British steamship ACARA broken in two off Jones Inlet, Long Island, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.527
View British steamship ACARA broken in two off Jones Inlet, Long Island, March 1, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
2008.28.4.528
View Submerged 3-masted schooner, circa 1903
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1903
2008.28.4.538
View Submerged 3-masted schooner and salvage vessel, circa 1903
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1903
2008.28.4.539
View Floating derrick MONARCH and lighter HUSTLER working over unidentified wreck; floating CENTURY in distance, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.547
View Steamship BELLENDEN anchored, possibly aground, in East River, New York, NY, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.554
View Steamship LA CHAMPAGNE aground at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, NY, May 1894
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-05-08
2008.28.1.203
View Derrick EDGAR pumping sunken tugboat HARVEY W. TEMPLE, East River, New York, NY, March 28, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-28
2008.28.1.25
View Derrick RELIANCE raising loaded freight cars from sunken float No 68, New York, NY, March 20, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-20
2008.28.1.26
View Tugboat BERTHA sunk at the Battery, New York, NY, December 1891
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1891-12
2008.28.1.3
View Derrick RELIANCE raising loaded freight cars from sunken float No 68, New York, NY, March 20, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-20
2008.28.1.30
View British steamship RODA ashore at Jones Beach, NY, February 13, 1908
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1908-02-13
1964.521.174
View Derrick MONARCH raising Barney Dumper sunk in Gravesend Bay, NY, November 8, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-11-08
1964.521.18
View Steamship H.M. WHITNEY sunk at Hell Gate, New York, NY, May 23, 1908
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1908-03-23
1964.521.186
View Tugboat OSCEOLA stranded at Piermont, NY, December 5, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-12-05
1964.521.31
View Morris & Cummings Dredge No. 12 sunk off Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 29, 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-06-29
2008.28.3.53
View Ferry bridge sunk in East River, NY, circa 1898
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
2008.28.3.75
View Pumps at work on Steamship GERMANIC, Hudson River, New York, February 11, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02-11
2008.28.3.85
View Lifting and pumping steamship LEONA, East River, New York, October 19, 1899
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-19
2008.28.3.92
View Floating derricks EDGAR and RELIANCE hoisting ALERT off breakwater, Glen Cove, NY, May 26, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-05-26
2008.28.4.57
View Tugboat TRANSFER NO. 3 sunk after being hit by steamer BUNKER HILL (not shown), probably New York Bay, October 2, 1907
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-10-02
2008.28.4.587
View Lighter CAPT. TOM alongside of tugboat TRANSFER NO. 3 sunk after being hit by steamer BUNKER HILL (not shown), October 2, 1907
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1907-10-02
2008.28.4.589
View Salvage operation, raising sunk railroad engine, circa 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1910
2008.28.4.598
View Floating derricks EDGAR and RELIANCE hoisting ALERT off breakwater, Glen Cove, NY, May 26, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-05-26
2008.28.1.50
View Barge SAUGERTIES ashore at 10th Street Reef, assisted b y HUSTLER and WM. E. CHAPMAN, June 2, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-06-02
2008.28.1.59
View Pumping out sidewheel steamer CEPHEUS, off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.77
View Steam lighter HUSTLER alongside steamer CEPHEUS, sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.95
View Pumping out steamer CEPHEUS, sunk off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.97
View Schooner JOHN F. KRANZ ashore at Mantoloking, NJ, March 21, 1903
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1903-03-21
1964.521.55
View Steamship ACARA ashore off Jones Inlet, Long Island, NY, March 1, 1902
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-03-01
1964.521.7
View Dredge HUGHES BROS. & BANGS NO. 22 ashore at Sachems Head, Connecticut, circa 1903
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1903
1964.521.73
View Sunken freighter CITY OF NORWALK seen from Blackwells, East River, New York, NY, March 30 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-30
2008.28.4.64
View Lighter HUSTLER and SCOW NO. 13 recovering freight from CITY OF NORWALK in East River at Blackwell's Island, New York, March 30, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-30
2008.28.4.65
View Floating derrick RELIANCE and barge IOWA at Thomas Morgan Grain Co. wharf, Newtown Creek, New York, NY, September 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-09
2008.28.4.66
View Steamboat ROSEDALE being raised by floating derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH, East River, New York, NY, September 4, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-09-04
2008.28.4.75
View Floating derricks raising submerged vessel, circa 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1896
2008.28.4.88
View Pumping out steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02
2008.28.4.9
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising Morris & Cummings DREDGE NO. 12, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 29, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-06-29
2008.28.4.90
View Salvage operation in ice, 2 salvage vessels and steamship, circa 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1896
2008.28.4.92
View Steamship OTRANTO stranded at Fire Island, NY, January 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-01
2008.28.4.93
View Fire? damage at unidentified wharf, circa 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1896
2008.28.4.94
View Fire? damage at unidentified wharf, circa 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1896
2008.28.4.95
View Derrick RELIANCE raising tugboat AMERICA in East River, New York, NY, June 11, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-06-11
2008.28.4.98
View Tanker FRANK H. BUCK ashore at Point Pinos, Monterey County, California, May 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-03 through 1924-05-17
1962.1249.1
View Fishing barge WILLIAM BOWDEN ashore at Redondo Beach, California, February 12, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-02-12
1962.1249.10
View Damaged hull of fishing schooner RHODE ISLAND after collision, San Martins Island, Mexico, December 26, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-12-26
1962.1249.115
View Damaged hull of fishing schooner RHODE ISLAND after collision, San Martins Island, Mexico, December 26, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-12-26
1962.1249.116
View Damaged hull of fishing schooner RHODE ISLAND after collision, San Martins Island, Mexico, December 26, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-12-26
1962.1249.117
View Damaged yawl yacht VIVA hauled out, possibly California, circa 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1926
1962.1249.12
View Shell Oil barge MARTINEZ sunk at Raccoon Straits, San Francisco Bay, California, May, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.122
View Shell Oil barge MARTINEZ sunk at Raccoon Straits, San Francisco Bay, California, May, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.125
View Shell Oil barge MARTINEZ sunk at Raccoon Straits, San Francisco Bay, California, May, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-05
1962.1249.131
View Unloading lumber from stranded steamship DAVID C. MEYER ashore at Point Fermin, near San Pedro, California, March 12, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-03-12
1962.1249.141
View Unloading lumber from stranded steamship DAVID C. MEYER ashore at Point Fermin, near San Pedro, California, March 12, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-03-12
1962.1249.143
View Tugboat SISTER on the rocks at Santa Cruz, California, circa 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1926
1962.1249.15
View Tugboat SISTER hoisted off rocks, Santa Cruz, California, circa 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1926
1962.1249.18
View Salvage tugboat sunk at Bethlehem Shipbuilding dock, San Pedro, California, July 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-07
1962.1249.38
View Tanker RICHFIELD aground, Long Beach Channel, San Pedro, California, January 22, 1926
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1926-01-22
1962.1249.47
View Tanker FRANK H. BUCK ashore at Point Pinos, deck view, Monterey County, California, May 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Heidrick
1924-05-03 through 1924-05-17
1962.1249.5
View USN Destroyer S.P. LEE wrecked near Santa Barbara, California, September 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-09
1962.1249.73
View Lifesaving equipment on shore near wreck of USN destroyers, Santa Barbara, CAlifronia, September 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-09
1962.1249.76
View Steamship COLUMBIA partially submerged, September 19, 1931
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1931-09-16
1962.1249.81
View Apparent collision of 3-masted schooner and steamboat
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1962.1249.85
View Wrecking anchor hoisted overboard steamer SANKATY ashore at Wilbur's Point, Sconticut Neck, near New Bedford, MA, February 21, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-21
1964.587.2
View Steam lighter LEVIATHAN of Boston, stranded on bank of Cape Cod Canal near Bourne Bridge, MA, September 6, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-09-06
1964.592.1
View Steamer SANKATY aground
gelatin silver print
T.A. Scott Company
1963.1507
View Floating derrick raising vessel, circa 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1912
1964.518.776
View Pumping out steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02
2008.28.4.13
View Floating derrick MONARCH assisting sunken barge EDWARD BECK, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.153
View Mallory Line steamship LEONA sunk at Pier 20, East River, New York, October 19, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-19
2008.28.4.166
View Steam yacht WANDA capsized at Crane's Dry Dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, October 25, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-10-25
2008.28.4.174
View Ferry STEINWAY on marine railway, damaged hull of another vessel on marine railway in foreground, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.176
View Steamship LASSELL after being sunk by S.S. Friesland, December 5, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-12-5
2008.28.4.183
View Pumping out steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02
2008.28.4.19
View Wharf scene, probably after a fire, damaged square rigged vessel in background, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.205
View Steamship SAALE after fire at piers, Hoboken, NJ, June 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.213
View Deck view on board steamship SAALE after fire at piers, Hoboken, NJ, June 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.214
View Steamships MAIN and BREMEN, with lighter WM. E. CHAPMAN after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.227
View Steamships MAIN and BREMEN with salvage vessels after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.230
View Marine diver and 4 other men in the ruins, presumably after pier fire at Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.237
View Tugboat JASON and floating derrick ADMIRAL, probably after pier fire, Hoboken, NJ, June 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.4.246
View Damage to steamboat CITY of FALL RIVER collision, October 30, 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-10-30
2008.28.4.255
View Fireboat SETH LOW with 2 tugboats and sunken sidewheel steamer, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.258
View Tugboat CHARLES F. ALLEN stranded on beach at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York, NY, May 24, 1910
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1910-05-24
1964.518.24
View Tugboat DANIEL KERN stranded on Boulder Reef, near Clark Island, 20 miles NW of Bellingham WA, 1923
real photo postcard, divided back, white border
1923
2014.49.10268
View Steamer POUGHKEEPSIE ashore in Hudson River at Stony Point, NY, March 21, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-21
2008.28.4.282
View Bark LA ESCOCOESA sunk off Robbins Reef Light, NJ, March 23, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-03-23
2008.28.4.29
View Bark LA ESCOCOESA sunk off Robbins Reef Light, NJ, March 23, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-03-23
2008.28.4.30
View Tugboat passing steamship aground, 1915-1930
real photo postcard, divided back
1915-1930
2014.49.9475
View British steamship GAELIC PRINCE, October 10, 1919, after rammed by US Army Transport ANTIGONE in Ambrose Channel
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-10-10
2008.28.8.543
View Steamship off coast, possibly stranded, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.547
View Steamship off coast, possibly stranded, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.549
View Steamboat (tugboat?) INVINCIBLE of New York capsized, probably New York Harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.553
View Floating derricks raising dredge LEHIGH sunk at Perth Amboy, NJ, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.560
View Pumping out ferry? sunk in harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.574
View 6-Masted schooner DOVERFJELD sunk near Stapleton, Staten Island, NY, August 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-08
2008.28.8.59
View Floating derrick? ARTHUR BROWN of New York assisting steamship TARANTIA, probably New York, NY, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.595
View Vessels assisting USS DEKALB after fire on board, Spuyten Duyvil, New York, December 16, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-12-16
2008.28.8.609
View Sunk vessel, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.613
View Lighter assisting unidentified steamship, probably New York harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.619
View Vessel sunk at dock, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.620
View Vessel sunk at dock, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.621
View Vessel sunk in icy harbor, probably New York harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.625
View Pumping out Clyde Line steamship LENAPE sunk at Pier 36, Hudson River, New York City, October 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-10
2008.28.6.105
View Clyde Line steamship LENAPE sunk at Pier 36, Hudson River, New York City, October 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-10
2008.28.6.108
View Clyde Line steamship LENAPE sunk at Pier 36, Hudson River, New York City, October 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-10
2008.28.6.110
View Snow on deck of American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01
2008.28.8.642
View Floating derricks alongside American steamship ST. LOUIS sunk at W. & A. Fletcher Company dry dock, Hoboken, NJ, January 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-01
2008.28.8.645
View Tugboat DEFIANCE sunk, Hudson River, New York, NY, photographed by J. Campana, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Campana, J.
circa 1917
2008.28.8.65
View Steam yacht GLOUCESTER sunk at marine basin, Brooklyn, NY, February 17, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-02-17
2008.28.8.655
View Floating derrick raising unidentified vessel
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.51
View Freighter aground
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
2008.28.6.75
View Munson Line steamship MOCCASIN sunk at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-03
2008.28.8.685
View Lighter CONVOY and barge assisting Munson Line steamship MOCCASIN sunk at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-03
2008.28.8.688
View Barge HARVEST QUEEN sunk at barge office, New York, NY, April 6, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-04-06
2008.28.8.720
View Steamship BERMUDEZ sunk at Crane's Dry Dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 16-20, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-03-16
2008.28.8.1005
View Pumping out steamship BERMUDEZ after sinking at Crane's Dry Dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 16-20, 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-03-16
2008.28.8.1007
View Barge NEW JERSEY sunk at Pier 44 in East River, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.101
View P. Sanford Ross DREDGE NO. 16 capsized at wharf, circa 1921
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1921
2008.28.8.1012
View Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. barge NAPOLEON sunk in harbor, probably New York City area, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.754
View Steamship KRISTIANIAFJORD wrecked near Cape Race, Newfoundland, June 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-06
2008.28.8.76
View Capsized vessel, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.765
View Steamship KIA ORA aground off Castle Island, British West Indies, February 24, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-02-24
2008.28.8.77
View Floating derricks raising capsized vessel, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.776
View Raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL June 16, 1918, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-04-25
1964.517.11
View Steamship ROYAL GEORGE aground on shore, spectators on mud flats
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1964.517.14
View Floating derricks raising steamship ZULIA sunk off Conover Street, Brooklyn, NY, December 8, 1913
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1913-12-08
1964.517.27
View Tugboat? aground off beach, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.106
View Tanker JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, probably at Robins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, 1920, after being aground off Tampico, Mexico, December 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920
2008.28.8.803
View Tanker JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, probably aground off Tampico, Mexico, 1919-1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-1920
2008.28.8.804
View Tanker JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER at Robins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, 1920, after being aground near Tampico, Mexico, December 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920
2008.28.8.806
View Tanker JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER at Robins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, 1920, after being aground near Tampico, Mexico, December 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920
2008.28.8.812
View Equipment on dredge WASHINGTON, sunk at Charleston, SC, October 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10
2008.28.8.824
View Dredge WASHINGTON, sunk at Charleston, SC, October 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10
2008.28.8.826
View Steamship KERSHAW capsized at wharf, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10-15
2008.28.8.845
View Floating derrick raising steamship KERSHAW capsized at wharf, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10-15
2008.28.8.846
View Floating derrick COMMANDER raising steamship KERSHAW capsized at wharf, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1920-10-15
2008.28.8.857
View Floating derricks MONARCH and WILL raising sidewheel steamer CATSKILL sunk in Hudson River, September 15, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-09-15
1964.520.108
View 3-Masted schooner aground in Cape Cod Canal, MA
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1964.550.1
View T.A. Scott Co. vessel in Cape Cod Canal, MA
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1964.550.4
View Tugboat alongside 3-masted schooner in Cape Cod Canal, MA, circa 1916
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
circa 1916
1964.551.1
View Floating derrick towing small boat in Cape Cod Canal, MA, circa 1916
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
circa 1916
1964.551.2
View Deck view of steamship MANCHURIA sunk at Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, June 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-06
2008.28.8.12
View Deck view of steamship H.F. DIMOCK sunk in East River, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.125
View Preparing to pump out steamship MANCHURIA sunk at Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, June 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-06
2008.28.8.13
View Salvage vessels raising steamer MINNESOTA sunk in Hell Gate, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.130
View Floating derricks RELIANCE and MONARCH raising steamer ULSTER sunk in Hudson River, near Cornwall, NY, November 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-11
1964.520.155
View Salvage vessels assisting steamer MINNESOTA sunk in Hell Gate, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.135
View Pumping out machinery inside steamer MINNESOTA sunk in Hell Gate, New York, NY, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.138
View Tugboat ERIN in dry dock, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.146
View Norwegian bark SORSTAD, listing in icy water at wharf, probably after being raised after rammed by tugboat, January 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-01
2008.28.8.157
View Floating derrick CHIEF assisting steamer CHELSEA sunk in icy water, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.170
View Floating derrick assisting capsized Taylor Dredging Corporation dredge, New York Harbor, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.18
View Vessel sunk in ice, possibly Hudson River, New York, NY, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.935
View Floating derrick CONTINENTAL assisting tugboat? in New York harbor, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.8.940
View British barkentine CULDOON stranded on Nantucket, MA, March 23, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-03-23
1964.520.179
View Steamship THURINGIA ashore at Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, West Indies, after 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
after 1922
1964.520.18
View Probably steamboat ERICSSON sunk in Delaware River, February 26, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-02-16
1964.520.183
View Floating derrick MONARCH assisting steamboat ERICSSON sunk in Delaware River, February 26, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-02-16
1964.520.186
View Ship stranded on beach near Forge River Lifesaving Station, Long Island, May 24, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-24
1964.520.204
View Steamer CITY OF WORCESTER partly submerged in Thames River, New London, CT, May 29, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-29
1964.520.213
View Lighter F.R. SHARP and other vessels assisting steamer CITY OF WORCESTER partly submerged in Thames River, New London, CT, May, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05
1964.520.215
View Floating derrick assisting sunk tugboat JOHN E. McALLISTER, circa 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1917
2008.28.8.20
View Steamship SUSQUEHANNA ashore at Barnegat, NJ, March 7, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-03-07
2008.28.8.201
View Lighters assisting steamship HUTTONWOOD off Brooklyn, NY, after explosion in hold on August 6, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-08-06
2008.28.8.225
View Barge INDEPENDENT stranded near Riverhead, Long Island, NY, November 26, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-11-26
1964.520.232
View Schooner barge E.W. STETSON stranded near Jamesport, Long Island, NY, November 26, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-11-26
1964.520.233
View Schooner FLORENCE sunk, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.252
View Interior of steamship HUTTONWOOD after explosion in hold on August 6, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-08-06
2008.28.8.236
View Raising steamship HUTTONWOOD after explosion in hold off Brooklyn, NY, August 6, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-08-06
2008.28.8.264
View American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, April 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-04-26
2008.28.8.275
View American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, April 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-04-28
2008.28.8.277
View Floating derrick CAPITOL raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.278
View Steamship OTRANTO stranded at Fire Island, NY, January 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-01
1964.520.28
View Stranded barge?, circa 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1898
1964.520.289
View Lighter? alongside sunk steamboat of New York at wharf?, circa 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1899
1964.520.312
View Raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.292
View Tugboat ELI B. CONINE sunk off Wards Island, Hell Gate, New York, August 23, 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-08-23
2008.28.8.31
View Apparatus for raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.311
View Raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.317
View Floating derrick CHIEF assisting with raising steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.318
View Pumping out American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.326
View Ferry HACKENSACK stranded on the rocks at Sunken Meadow, Long Island, February 12, 189
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-02-12
1964.520.34
View Ferry HACKENSACK stranded on the rocks at Sunken Meadow, Long Island, February 12, 189
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-02-12
1964.520.37
View Barge SATANELLA stranded at Lloyd Neck, NY, Long Island Sound, February 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-02
1964.520.43
View Pumping out ferry ANNEX NO. 5 after fire on Communipaw Flats, Jersey City, NJ, March 31, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-03-31
1964.520.47
View Tugboat GEORGE L. GARLICK in chains of floating derrick RELIANCE after being ashore on Rockaway, Long Island, NY, May 25, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897-05
1964.520.60
View 3-Masted schooner sunk, circa 1900
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
1964.520.77
View Raising American Line passenger steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.335
View Floating derrick CHIEF and others assisting at raising steamship ST. PAUL, sunk after capsizing at pier in Hudson River, New York, on April 25, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918
2008.28.8.336
View Army transport steamship AMERICA sunk at Pier 3, deck view, Hoboken, NJ, October 14, 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-10-14
2008.28.8.347
View Floating derrick RELIANCE hoisting stone scow; New York Central barge RIVERDALE at left, circa 1903
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1903
2008.28.9.233
View Steamer CITY OF WORCESTER partly submerged in Thames River, New London, CT, salvage vessels alongside, May 29, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-29
1964.520.82
View Lighter HUSTLER, being towed?, possibly associated with steamer CITY OF WORCESTER sinking in Thames River, New London, CT, May 29, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-29
1964.520.85
View Steamer CITY OF WORCESTER sunk in Thames River, New London, CT, salvage vessels and rowboats near by, May 29, 1898
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1898-05-29
1964.520.87
View Lighter WM. E. CHAPMAN assisting sidewheel steamer CATSKILL sunk in Hudson River, NY, 1897
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1897
1964.520.99
View Tugboats WELCOME and KNIGHT TEMPLAR towing ferry PERE MARQUETTE 17 stuck in ice at Ludington, Mich., January 1907
real photo postcard, divided back
1907-01
2014.49.10369
View Floating derrick assisting partially sunk steamboat, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.381
View Lighter? assisting unidentified steamship, sunk, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.395
View Deck view of unidentified steamship, sunk, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.396
View Steamship, listing at pier, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.399
View Hoisting large pipe, circa 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1918
2008.28.8.403
View Extinguishing fire or pumping out steamship CITY OF LAHORE, sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, NY, November 1918
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1918-11
2008.28.8.406
View Steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, February, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.421
View Floating derrick COMMONWEALTH assisting steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, February, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.423
View Steamship SIXAOLA partially capsized at Pier 9, Hoboken, NJ, February, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.425
View Lighter CHAMPION assisting Canadian freighter LORD DUFFERIN sunk in New York Harbor, after being rammed by steamship AQUITANIA on February 28, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.433
View Salvage vessels assisting Canadian freighter LORD DUFFERIN sunk in New York Harbor, after being rammed by steamship AQUITANIA on February 28, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.436
View Damaged hull of cargo ship WAUBESA in New York Harbor, after collision with ferry boats QUEENS and MAYOR GAYNOR in fog on March 17, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-03
2008.28.8.445
View Deck view of badly damaged towing steamer WM. A. JAMISON sunk, probably New York Harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.448
View Canadian freighter LORD DUFFERIN in dry dock after being rammed by steamship AQUITANIA on February 28, 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1919-02
2008.28.8.472
View Floating derrick CONQUEROR aground in harbor, large reels on deck, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.473
View Tugboat D.T. SHERIDAN on the rocks at Lobster Point, Monhegan Island, ME, November 1948
real photo postcard
Brackett, Lorimer E.
1948-11
2014.49.9431
View 4-Masted schooner AGNES MANNING aground near Rye Beach, NH, January, 1908
real photo postcard, divided back
1908-01
2014.49.9457
View Lighter RESOLUTE and floating derrick COMMODORE assisting steamship MANCHURIA sunk at Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, June 1917
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1917-06
2008.28.8.5
View Ferry NEWTOWN sunk, probably New York Harbor, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.502
View Floating derrick hoisting twisted metal (vessel sheathing?) from harbor?, circa 1919
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1919
2008.28.8.507
View Steamship BALABAC wreck, Mucurapo Point, Trinidad and Tobago, January 1923
copy gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-01
2008.28.5.363
View 4-Masted schooner ADA TOWER ashore at Fire Island, Long Island, NY, May 23, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-05-23
2008.28.5.371
View Sunken garbage barge, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.390
View Partially raised sunken garbage barge, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.394
View Damaged oil carrier F.D. ASCHE in dry dock at Robbins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, September 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-09
2008.28.5.4
View Protected cruiser TACOMA wrecked off Veracruz, Mexico, January 16, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-01-16
2008.28.5.525
View Protected cruiser TACOMA (deck view) wrecked off Veracruz, Mexico, January 16, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-01-16
2008.28.5.527
View Steamer SQUANTUM ashore, Brooklyn, January 17, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-01-17
2008.28.5.572
View Floating derrick COLOSSUS assisting sunk yacht MIRAGE, off Robbins Reef, New York Bay, February 29, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-02-29
2008.28.5.577
View Steamship LIBERTY aground, New York Bay, April 3, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04-03
2008.28.5.592
View Steamship LIBERTY aground, view of propeller, New York Bay, April 3, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04-03
2008.28.5.595
View Steamboat INTERSTATE PARK sunk at dock, Brooklyn, New York, April 2, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04-02
2008.28.5.596
View Steamship ANAHUAC stranded on beach at Bellport, Long Island, NY, April 10, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04-10
2008.28.5.602
View Steamship ANAHUAC stranded on beach at Bellport, Long Island, NY, April 10, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04-10
2008.28.5.605
View Steamers GRAND REPUBLIC, HIGHLANDER, and NASSAU burned and sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, April 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04
2008.28.5.607
View Tugboat MABELL BARTON at pier, probably after fire in Hudson River, New York, April 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04
2008.28.5.608
View Steamers GRAND REPUBLIC, HIGHLANDER, and NASSAU burned and sunk at pier in Hudson River, New York, April 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-04
2008.28.5.610
View Tanker FRANK H. BUCK on the rocks, breeches buoy line visible, Monterey Bay, California, May 4, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Heidrick
1924-05-04
2008.28.5.629
View Floating derrick CORPORAL (or CORPORATION) sunk at dry dock, Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY, May 23, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-05-23
2008.28.5.633
View Deck view of steamship EGREMONT CASTLE sunk on Red Hook Flats, Brooklyn, NY, June 26, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-06-26
2008.28.5.641
View Floating derrick MONARCH assisting steamship EGREMONT CASTLE sunk on Red Hook Flats, Brooklyn, NY, June 26, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-06-26
2008.28.5.643
View Hoisting floating derrick capsized next to dry dock, circa 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1924
2008.28.5.657
View Pumping out dredge sunk at Stony Brook (NY?), August 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-08
2008.28.5.691
View Tugboat TRANSFER NO. 5 in dry dock, New York, NY, December, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-12-29
2008.28.5.723
View Tugboat TRANSFER NO. 5 in dry dock, New York, NY, view of damaged hull, December, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-12-29
2008.28.5.726
View Floating derrick MONARCH raising tugboat TRANSFER NO. 5, New York, NY, December, 1924
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1924-12-29
2008.28.5.728
View Motor yacht VEDETTE raised after sinking at foot of Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, January 22, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-01-22
2008.28.5.751
View Steamship JUANITA aground on San Juan Cay, Venezuela, January 10, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-01-10
2008.28.5.757
View Waves breaking over deck of steamship JUANITA aground on San Juan Cay, Venezuela, January 10, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-01-10
2008.28.5.761
View Dredge EUGENE sunk in Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, NY, February 20, 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1925-02-20
2008.28.5.770
View Tugboat O'BRIEN sunk in harbor, probably New York, NY, circa 1925
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1925
2008.28.5.788
View Steamship MALOLO in dry dock in New York, NY, after collision with steamship JACOB CHRISTENSEN near Nantucket Lightship, 1927
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1927
2008.28.5.799
View Floating derrick MONARCH assisting damaged 4-masted schooner, at wharf, circa 1920
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1920
2008.28.5.101
View Lumber schooner sunk off coast, tugboat JOS. PARKER in background, probably Maine, before 1907
real photo postcard, divided back
before 1907
2014.49.9585
View Damaged oil carrier F.D. ASCHE in dry dock at Robbins Dry Dock, Brooklyn, NY, September 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-09
2008.28.5.11
View British steamship ANDREE sunk in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.145
View Metal piece hoisted on derrick from British steamship ANDREE sunk in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.148
View Floating derrick CONTINENTAL assisting British steamship ANDREE sunk in Delaware River, May 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-05
2008.28.5.155
View Freighter CAROLYN at Snow Marine Co. dock, Rockland, Maine, August 17, 1912
real photo postcard, divided back
1912-08-17
2014.49.9646
View Damaged bridge, yachts mooring in background, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922
2008.28.5.175
View Large broken shackle, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.185
View Broken end of large shackle, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.189
View Deck view of vessel sunk at wharf, circa 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1922
2008.28.5.195
View Stern view of damaged training ship GRANITE STATE after fire of May 23, 1921, at New York pier
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1921-05-23
2008.28.5.20
View Barge WINCECO of Greenport, ashore off New Rochelle, NY, September 1, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-09-01
2008.28.5.224
View Dredge HELL GATE off Shooters Island, Staten Island, NY, December, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-12
2008.28.5.249
View Tanker SWIFTSTAR in dry dock after running aground off Block Island, Rhode Island, October 11, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-10-11 after
2008.28.5.289
View Tanker SWIFTSTAR in dry dock after running aground off Block Island, Rhode Island, October 11, 1922
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1922-10-11 after
2008.28.5.290
View Steamship WEST CALUMB sunk at pier 16, Brooklyn, NY, January 12, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-01-12
2008.28.5.295
View New Jersey Central Railroad tugboat sunk in ice at dock, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.309
View Damaged deck of steamship SAGUA, Hoboken, New Jersey, February 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-02
2008.28.5.325
View Steamship BUCKLEIGH ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 17, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-03-17
2008.28.5.334
View Floating derrick and rowboats, probably at site of steamship BUCKLEIGH ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, NY, March 24, 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1923-03-24
2008.28.5.351
View Damaged vessel of New York, possibly a work launch, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.353
View Deck view of damaged vessel, possibly a work launch, circa 1923
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1923
2008.28.5.355
View Steamer CITY OF ATLANTA after fire, Greenpoint, NY, January, 1893
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1893-01
2008.28.2.10
View Fall River Line steamer PLYMOUTH aground near Newport, RI, June 1894
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-06
2008.28.2.11
View Tugboat WALLACE B. FLINT alongside damaged tubgoat JAMES D. NICOL, East River, New York, July 10, 1894
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07-10
2008.28.2.16
View Fall River Line steamer PLYMOUTH aground near Newport, RI, June 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-06
2008.28.2.26
View Fall River Line steamer PLYMOUTH aground near Newport, RI, June 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-06
2008.28.2.28
View Derrick EDGAR raising sunk steam yacht AZTEC off Halletts Point, Hell Gate, NY, July 4, 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07-04
2008.28.2.33
View Derrick RELIANCE and lighter HUSTLER at Lackawanna Valley Railroad locomotive accident, Jersey City, NJ, September 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-09
2008.28.2.43
View Ship GLENESSLIN after fire, Brooklyn, NY, September 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-09-23
2008.28.2.48
View Steamer CITY OF NORWALK sunk at Blackwell's Island, New York, March 30, 1892
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-03-30
2008.28.2.55
View Damaged barge POTOMAC on Bullman & Brown dry dock, October 1894
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-10
2008.28.2.64
View Derrick RELIANCE raising barge MIDAS, sunk in Hudson River, NY, February 3, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-02-03
2008.28.2.101
View Derrick RELIANCE raising tugboat MARY A. PACKER, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, March 29, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-03-29
2008.28.2.112
View Steamer CONTINENTAL being towed through Hell Gate, New York, NY, April 28, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-04-28
2008.28.2.119
View Steamer ISABEL ashore, with salvage vessels, at Branford, Connecticut, August 5, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08-05
2008.28.2.146
View Salvage vessel PROMISED LAND, alongside steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, off Montauk Long Island, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.3
View Steamship ONTARIO (probably), in dry dock after fire, off Montauk Long Island, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.544.4
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, on fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.543.3
View Steamship ST. PAUL aground off Long Branch, NJ, January 25, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-01-25
2008.28.2.180
View Steamship GEORGE W. CLYDE and tugboat AMERICA, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, March 9, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-03-09
2008.28.2.195
View Steamer ISABEL ashore at Branford, Connecticut, August 4, 1895
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1895-08-04
2008.28.2.216
View Floating derrick RELIANCE with tugboat COLUMBIA in chains at pier, Conover Street, Brooklyn, NY, May 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-05
2008.28.2.217
View Floating derrick MONARCH carrying floating grain elevator CERES to coal docks, Jersey City, NJ, August 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-08
2008.28.2.220
View Steamship ONTARIO of Baltimore, MD, after fire, ashore off Montauk Point, NY, April 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1912-04
1964.541.8
View Patch on damaged hull of floating grain elevator CERES, August 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-08
2008.28.2.222
View Steamship TILLIE aground at Fishers Island, NY, July-August 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-07; 1896-08
2008.28.2.224
View Steamer LIZZIE HENDERSON sunk after fire, Hudson River, New York, NY, August 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-08
2008.28.2.241
View Steamer ROSEDALE sunk after collision in East River, New York, NY, September 4, 1896
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1896-09-04
2008.28.2.247
View Tugboat MONARCH and other vessels ashore after storm, Pensacola, Florida, 1906
real photo postcard, white border
1906
2014.49.2235
View Wreck of steamship SAN FRANCISCO, December 24, 1853, sinking
photograph of lithograph
Wright, Charles Munn
1853-12-24
1960.34.69
View Floating derrick CENTURY raising railroad car
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.462
View S.S. NICHOLAS CUNEO ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, February 4, 1913
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-02-04
1964.660.985
View S.S. NICHOLAS CUNEO ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, February 4, 1913
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-02-04
1964.660.986
View S.S. NICHOLAS CUNEO ashore at Long Beach, Long Island, February 4, 1913
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-02-04
1964.660.991
View Floating derrick raising vessel (....SULLIVAN)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1028
View Starboard view of sunken steamer TOURIST of New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1233
View Floating derrick hoisting scow
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.466
View Submerged railroad cars; yachts in harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.479
View Hughes Brothers & Bangs Barge No. 22 aground
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.483
View Sunken tug OWASCO; steamboat WM. MYERS in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1905-02-16
1964.660.510
View Steamship aground
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.521
View Floating derrick MONARCH and steamship GEO. W. CLYDE
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1896-02-29
1964.660.66
View Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-02
1964.660.576
View S.S. PRINZESS IRENE, bow view, ashore at Fire Island Beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-04-06
1964.660.588
View Tug McCALDIN BROS. being raised by derrick MONARCH
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-02
1964.660.609
View Two lighters during salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.123
View Starboard view of sidewheel steamer CENTRAL HUDSON ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-05-23
1964.660.641
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, port view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.651
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, port view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.652
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, port view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.653
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, bow view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.655
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, bow view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.657
View Unidentified salvage operation in harbor
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.136
View Diver and ferry NORTHFIELD after collision in East River, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.149
View Pumping out ferry boat NORTHFIELD, East River, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.152
View Men on deck of ferry NORTHFIELD after collision in East River, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1901-06-14
1964.660.157
View US Army transport INGALLS capsized on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1901-06-14
1964.660.158
View Sidewheel steamer PENOBSCOT, starboard view, on mud flat
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-06-14
1964.660.664
View Unloading three-masted ship ashore, possibly Long Branch, New Jersey
glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.171
View Steamship SS ACARA aground and partially submerged
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Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.206
View Steamship SS ACARA aground, partially submerged, port view
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.208
View Sidewheel steamer JOHN SYLVESTER, port stern view, aground
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-08-04
1964.660.727
View Sidewheel steamer BURLINGTON ashore and sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1911-08
1964.660.743
View Salvage schooner (?) JOHN W. CHITTENDEN with wreck ACARA?
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.221
View Tug OSCEOLA, port view, stranded on breakwater at Piermont, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.302
View Tug OSCEOLA, port view, stranded on breakwater at Piermont, NY
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-05
1964.660.303
View Pumping out railroad car float #36
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.338
View S.S. JOSE sunk after fire on Pier 8, East River, New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-03-13
1964.660.826
View Railroad car float #6 of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad on the rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1902-12-25
1964.660.347
View Floating derrick raising COLUMBIA from icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.375
View Damaged hull of unidentified vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.855
View Floating derrick raising tug NEW YORK CENTRAL NO. 22 on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-02-05
1964.660.390
View Floating derrick raising tug NEW YORK CENTRAL NO. 22 on rocks
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-02-05
1964.660.394
View Sunken vessel at dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.397
View S. S. BRIGHTON, bow view, ashore, Atlantic City, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1903-03-31
1964.660.411
View S. S. ALLEGHANY, starboard view, and derrick at dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.427
View Lighter JOHN W. CHITTENDEN raising steamship, possibly small coastal steamer GRECIAN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1913-12
1964.660.1109
View Salvage of sunken coastal steamer GRECIAN, lighter HENRY SEYMOUR and derrick EDGAR
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1132
View Derrick CAPITOL preparing to raise wreck of Lehigh Valley tugboat GENESEE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.927
View Wrecked S. S. DUNHOLME, Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.932
View Wreckage of S.S. DUNHOLME, sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.941
View Wreckage of S.S. DUNHOLME sunk at Bayonne, New Jersey
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.947
View Steamer CIMBRIA in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.952
View Unidentified sunken vessel (...LIFF)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.953
View S. S. TURRIALBA ashore off New Jersey coast, December 24, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-12-24
1964.660.957
View S. S. TURRIALBA ashore off New Jersey coast, December 24, 1912
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1912-12-24
1964.660.960
View S.S. TURRIALBA in dry dock, showing broken rudder and propeller
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.966
View Sunken tugboat JOHN NICHOLS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1169
View Capsized vessel, railroad barge in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1171
View S. S. QUEEN LOUISE, port view, stranded on beach
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1174
View Sunken tug PETER L. COLON, people on wharf
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1187
View Starboard view, sidewheel steamer IROQUOIS, run ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1195
View Side view of barge WINCECO of Greenport, ashore
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922-09-01
1964.660.2557
View Starboard view of steamer MOHAWK of Boston, Eastern Steamship Co., wrecked
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2573
View Damage to S.S. WEST CALUMB, vessel at dock with floating derrick
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1919-01-01
1964.660.2615
View Damage to S. S. WEST CALUMB, bow view, at dock, lighter COMMISSIONER at left, tug GEO. N. BARRETT
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1919-01-01
1964.660.2618
View Sunken dredge ARIUS
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1280
View Sunken dredge, yacht mooring in background
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1285
View Wreck of tugboat LUTHER C. WARD
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1313
View Floating derricks raising capsized vessel HELL GATE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2637
View Capsized vessel HELL GATE righted during salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-02-16
1964.660.2639
View Unidentified New Jersey Central tugboat sunk, seen from deck of another vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2645
View Pumping out S.S. SAGUA, November 15, 1923, NIcaragua
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1923-11-15
1964.660.2657
View View of deck of damage to tug H. BRASON of New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1335
View View of deck of damaged tug H. BRASON of New York
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1337
View Stern view of S.S. PRESTON from Bergen, Norway, sinking
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1340
View Men working on vessel in dry dock
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2959
View Salvage operation, sunken vessel, pumping out
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2977
View Salvaging sunken vessel with winter cover on; at left billethead of another vessel
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3037
View Salvage of sunken vessel with winter cover on, people on dock watching, icy water
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3039
View Copy photograph, deck view, S.S. JUANITA, aground
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3051
View Sunken floating derrick CAPITOL, tug at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3077
View Sunken barge (?)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3122
View Salvage operation, twisted metal and wreckage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3211
View Damaged ferry PHILADELPHIA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2749
View Starboard view of S.S. LENAPE, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2321
View Port view of S.S. LENAPE, salvage operation
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
after 1912
1964.660.2330
View Floating derrick raising unidentified sunken vessel (barge?)
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1747
View Capsized railroad barge No. 4
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1751
View Salvage of steamship SAGUA, deck damage
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1781
View Capsized barge
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1855
View Bow view, starboard side of S. S. SARATOGA, sunk
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1859
View Tugboat DEFIANCE (or DEFIANT) sunk, Hudson River Lighter VALVOLINE at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1879
View Port view of tugboat ELI B. CONNINE
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1880
View Damaged corner of floating derrick or barge, dated 7/12/1922
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1922-07-12
1964.660.2522
View Page 16, "The Salvage of H.M. Cruiser GLADIATOR"; fig. 20 ship righting, fig. 21
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.3290
View Steam lighter RESOLUTE, salvage of steamship H.F. DIMOCK
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1938
View Unidentified sunken steamer at dock, yacht with figurehead at right
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1950
View Steamer CHELSEA submerged
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1977
View Derelict barges on shore, warehouse of New York Dock Company, Red Hook Stores
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1983
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2052
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2059
View Capsized steamship ST. PAUL ready to be righted, June 16, 1918
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1918-06-16
1964.660.2075
View Righting of capsized steamship ST. PAUL
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2099
View Pumping out S.S. BERMUDEZ of Philadelphia
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.2151
View "EASTLAND DISASTER"
photographic postcard
circa 1915
2014.49.177
View Port stern view of steamship ORITANI aground, seen from another vessel, tow line visible
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4495
View Salvage of steamboat SARATOGA, sunk in Hudson River, near Barrytown, October 13, 1906
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1906-10-13
1964.660.5045
View Salvage of S.S. MAIN and S.S. BREMEN after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1900-06-30
1964.660.5067
View Steamboat run aground
nitrate negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.4490.A
View Salvage of steamship LANSING, bow view, sunken
gelatin glass negative
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works
1964.660.1637
View View of bottom of tug GOV. FLOWER of Perth Amboy, on its side; floating derrick CENTURY at left
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1686
View Port view of U.S.T. SUMNER near Barnegat, New Jersey, aground, December 13, 1916
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1916-12-13
1964.660.1728
View Sunken tugboat WM. J.M. CALDIN, with steamship DORA
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1734
View Raising tugboat WM. J.M. CALDIN
gelatin glass negative
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
1964.660.1736
View 3-Masted schooner MOLA ashore off Chadwick, NJ, April 20, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-20
2008.28.4.315
View 3-Masted schooner MOLA ashore off Chadwick, NJ, April 20, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-04-20
2008.28.4.316
View Derrick MONARCH raising ferry NORTHFIELD, sunk at Pier 10, East River, New York, NY, by collision with ferry MAUCH CHUCK, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.334
View U.S. Army Transport INGALLS capsized and sunk on dry dock, Erie Basin, Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-06-14
2008.28.4.347
View Floating derricks CENTURY and MONARCH raising unidentified steamboat, circa 190
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
circa 1900
2008.28.4.353
View Steamship OLD DOMINION stranded on rocks off Milton Point, NY, July 6, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-06
2008.28.4.364
View Lighter CHAMPION assisting yacht VENITZIA sunk off Captains Island, CT, Long Island Sound, July 19, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-07-19
2008.28.4.367
View Schooner HANNAH F. CARLETON sunk on Flynn's Knoll, New York Harbor, September 30, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-09-30
2008.28.4.372
View Steamship GERMANIC sunk at pier, New York, NY, February, 1899
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1899-02
2008.28.4.4
View Raising steamship BOOTHBAY which sank at Bath, ME, June 1, 1908
real photo postcard
1908-06
2014.49.9344
View Spectators on rocks looking at steamer NORUMBEGA aground at Clark's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, August 1912
real photo postcard
1912-08
2014.49.9347
View Steamer NORUMBEGA aground at Clark's Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine, August 1912
real photo postcard
1912-08
2014.49.9351
View Steamer NORUMBEGA stranded at Clarks Point, Southwest Harbor, ME, August 1912
real photo postcard
1912-08
2014.49.9358
View Steam Yacht AZTEC being raised off Halletts Point, Hell Gate, NY, July 1, 1894
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07-01
2008.28.3.10
View Steamship GATE CITY stranded near Moriches, Long Island, NY, February 8, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-8
2008.28.3.104
View Cracked hull of steamship GATE CITY stranded near Moriches, Long Island, NY, February 8, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-8
2008.28.3.106
View American steamship GATE CITY stranded, Moriches, Long Island, NY, circa February 8, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-02-8
2008.28.3.107
View Bark EMMA T. CROWELL after fire off Fire Island, New York, July 19, 1894
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1894-07-19
2008.28.3.11
View Salvage of steamship BREMEN after Hoboken, NJ, pier fire of June 30, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-06-30
2008.28.3.127
View Ferry PLAINFIELD burned and sunk off Ellis Island, September 14, 1900
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1900-09-14
2008.28.3.134
View Steamer TALISMAN sunk in East River, NY, January 23, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-01-23
2008.28.3.138
View Steamer TALISMAN sunk in East River off Mouth of Newtown Creek, January 23, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-01-23
2008.28.3.139
View Schooner NATHANIEL T. PALMER, deck view, stranded at Beach Haven, NJ, March 11, 1901
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-03-11
2008.28.3.144
View Steamship HERO ashore at Colon, Colombia, December 31, 1901
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1901-12-31
2008.28.4.421
View Steamship CAVOUR stranded at Long Beach, NY, January 31, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-01-31
2008.28.4.425
View Ice-covered ship L. SCHEPP stranded off Long Beach, Long Island, NY, February 3, 1902
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1902-02-03
2008.28.4.430
View Lehigh Valley tugboat SHAWANESE on the rocks at Fishers Island, NY, April, 1911
real photo postcard
1911-04
2014.49.9378
View Steamer CEPHEUS raised, after sinking off Coney Island, NY, August 12, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-08-12
2008.28.1.103
View Steamer EMELINE ashore, Catskill Creek, NY, October 5, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-10-05
2008.28.1.114
View Steamer EMELINE ashore, Catskill Creek, NY, October 5, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-10-05
2008.28.1.118
View Steamer EMELINE ashore, derrick RELIANCE alongside, Catskill Creek, NY, circa October 5, 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-10-05
2008.28.1.124
View Steamer EMELINEashore in Catskill Creek, NY, October 1892
cyanotype
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1892-10-05
2008.28.1.129
View Ferry COLUMBIA sunk off Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, November 4, 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1904-11-04
1964.521.107
View Steamship DOROTHY (ex-steamship IBERIA) sunk at Baltimore, Maryland, November 27, 1904
gelatin print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
1904-11-27
1964.521.115
View