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[The Morro Castle (ship), near Asbury Park Convention Hall, New Jersey] [graphic].
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Creator
Davis, Eugene H., photographer.
Contributor
Warren & Wetmore, architects.
Title
[The Morro Castle (ship), near Asbury Park Convention Hall, New Jersey] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Date
ca. 1935-1936
Physical Description
1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 12 x 17 cm. (4.75 x 6.75 in.)
Description
Depicts the SS Morro Castle in the Atlantic Ocean near the piers of the Convention Hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey. A barge rides beside the once-luxurious cruise ship, possibly towing it away from the coast to be dismantled.
Notes
The SS Morro Castle was a cruise ship built in 1929 for the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, also known as the Ward Line, to operate between New York City and Havana, Cuba. On September 8, 1934, the ship caught fire on its way to New York and beached at Asbury Park, New Jersey.
The Asbury Park Convention Hall was constructed ca. 1923 after designs by the New York architectural firm Warren and Wetmore.
Gift of Emily Riese.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject
Morro Castle (Steamship)
Asbury Park Convention Hall (Asbury Park, N.J.)
Fires -- Atlantic Ocean.
Ships.
Shipwrecks -- Atlantic Ocean.
Social & civic facilities -- New Jersey -- Asbury Park.
Geographic subject
Asbury Park (N.J.)
Associated name
Warren & Wetmore, architects.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Davis [P.9332.9]
Accession number
P.9332.9
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Eugene Davis Philadelphia Street Railway Electrification Photograph Collection
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