1948 Press Photo New York Patrolman James Murphy & a rescued dog at station NYC

Patrolman James Murphy offers a pan of water to a pooch that was alost a victim of a accident between a steel prowed tanker and a wooden barge that cut the barge in two and precipitated an all night salvage job A police launch, fireboat and Coast Guard cutter went into acction and hauled the half barge that stayed afloat ashore where they found the little fellow and took him to a police station for safe keeping

Photo is dated 1948.

Photo measures 9 x 7.25 inches.