U.S.S. Merrimac, catching a shark, scene from the Texas

Second title on negative: "4 Heads and a half," no. 000000, Bunco Potograb [sic] Co.
Attribution based on negative D4-20622.
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901), and on the ship being in the US Navy for only the year 1898. She was built as the Solveig in the UK in 1894 and acquired and renamed by USN for the Spanish American War. She went to Cuba with Schley, and was sunk trying to block the harbor entrance at Santiago. (Source: C. Seavey, 2018)
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020621.
Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Edward H. Hart, American photographer active about 1890