Shipwreck Salvage Operations of the Wrecked SS Quartette, Archive of 24 Photos with Captions and Identified Individuals, circa 1953
Postwar Pacific shipwreck salvage photo archive depicting named crewmen and firsthand recovery work aboard the wrecked steam-powered Liberty ship SS Quartette at Pearl and Hermes Atoll, 1952-1953. Photos record the salvage-crew point of view: men are identified by name, operations are captioned in plain working language, and the broken ship.....