The stranded Mataafa as the storm subsides

Creator

McKenzie, Hugh, 1879-1957

Date

• 1905

Summary

• Ship: Mataafa (constructed 1899)
• No. 7 of 22. Glass plate of starboard view of the screw bulk freighter, Mataafa, stranded on the North Pier, Minnesota in November, 1905. Waves still breaking over the broken vessel. Canal Park of Duluth, Minnesota is in the background. Crack in lower left corner, some dust, surface abrasion. Inscribed 185. Donor: Kenneth E. Thro Collection. Previously named Pennsylvania. (16 cm. x 21.5 cm.)