File MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5 - Photographs of the oil spill at Alexandria Bay, New York

Photograph of an oiled blue-winged teal at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of an oiled embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of oil along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of oil invading a marshy embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of oil and cladophora along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of an oil pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of oil along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of a researcher examining weathered crude oil at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of a docked "slick licker" at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of weathered crude oil affecting Corex at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of an oiled boat at Alexandria Bay, New York Photograph of oil along the shore, affecting Salix babylonica, at Alexandria Bay, New York

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Photographs of the oil spill at Alexandria Bay, New York

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MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5

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  • 1976 (Creation)

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12 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm

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(1950 - 2015)

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File contains 12 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandria Bay, New York in 1976. Photographs show clean-up efforts after the oil Barge Nepco ran aground on June 23, 1976 and spilled 250,000 gallons of crude oil in the St. Lawrence Seaway. The barge was owned by the Oswego Barge Company of Wilmington, Delaware and held oil owned by the New England Petroleum Company.

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Metal slide box was discarded during archival processing.

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Slides were originally held in a tan metal slide box with handwritten label: "W. Arctic Sable Isl.". They were stored in compartment 15, titled "Alexandria Bay", as per Freedman's penciled location key.

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