Archives Catalogue

Photographs of the oil spill at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5
File
1976

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.

Photograph of an oiled embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 2
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows an oiled embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York, with henna preventing the further spread of the oil.

Photograph of an oiled blue-winged teal at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 1
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows a blue-winged teal covered in oil, as a result of the Alexandria Bay oil spill

Photograph of oil along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 3
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of oil and cladophora along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 5
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows oil and a development of cladophora algae along the shore at Alexandria Bay, with a small houseboat in the background.

Photograph of oil invading a marshy embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 4
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of an oil pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 6
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows a Coastal Services Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York, with one unidentified worker sitting atop the tanker.