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Hoboken Historical Museum Online Archive
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Digital images, 2, of exteriors buildings on east side, 600 block of Willow Avenue, Hoboken, July 20, 2004.
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Digital images, 2, of railroad bridge with Hoboken sign on Newark Ave., Jersey City, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 2, of the El Dorado apartment building at the NW corner of Washington & Twelfth Sts., February 17, 2006.
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Digital images, 2, of the building of former Jefferson Trust Company, 313-315 First St., Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 2, of walkway entrance to the Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, Sept. 10, 2007.
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Digital images, 2, winners of the 2004 Hoboken Baby Parade with a winner from the 1914 parade, Hoboken, June 5, 2004.
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Digital images, 20, of reception for Hoboken Historical Museum volunteers, Williams Library, SIT, Hoboken, Feb. 19, 2002.
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Digital images, 21, of children's class visit to exhibit "Hoboken in the 1970s," Hoboken, May 23, 2007.
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Digital images, 21, of class of young children visiting exhibition, Hoboken, The First Seventy-Five Years: 1855-1930, HHM, Hoboken, May 12, 2005.
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Digital images, 23, music program, Tom Vincent; 1980s “Kitchen Table Music” , HHM, Hoboken, Nov. 10, 2007.
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Digital images, 24, of the exterior of Hoboken City Hall, mostly the eastern facade, Hoboken, Oct. 22, 2005.
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Digital images, 26, of Family Fun Day activities at Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, July 17, 2004.
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Digital images, 26, of opening reception for exhibition, From Another Time: Hoboken in the 1970s, HHM, Jan. 21, 2007.
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Digital images, 27, of former bank interior at 101 Washington St., Hoboken, Oct. 30, 2008.
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Digital images, 27, of the 19th C. ship Wavertree at the Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, May to August, 1981.
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Digital images, 28, of demolition of building 5, Maxwell House Coffee Plant, Hoboken, September 1, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of A.J. Demarest Middle School, Garden and Fourth Sts., Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of Civil War Soldiers Memorial, Hudson Square Park, Hoboken, July 9, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of Jaime Schlesinger giving gallery tour, Hoboken in the 1970s, at HHM, Hoboken, June 30, 2007.
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Digital images, 3, of Negron family members at exhibition, From Another Time: Hoboken in the 1970s, HHM, Feb. 7, 2007.
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Digital images, 3, of Saint Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hoboken, August 5, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of Story Time led by Penny Metsch for preschool children at HHM, Hoboken, April 14, 2005.
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Digital images, 3, of class visit to exhibition, Hoboken 1855-1930, HHM, Hoboken, April 15, 2005
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Digital images, 3, of column details on Commerce Bank building, SE of Newark & Hudson Sts., Hoboken, Aug. 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of demolition of building 5, Maxwell House Coffee Plant, Hoboken, September 3, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of entrance to Jackson Street Park, 120 Jackson St., Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of exterior of 900-902 Hudson St., Hoboken, August 27, 2004. Photographs taken by Robert Foster.
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Digital images, 3, of exterior of Elysian Cafe, 1001 Washington St. with grand opening bunting, Hoboken, August 5, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of exterior of Fire Department Museum, 213 Bloomfield St., Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of exterior of robotic parking garage, 916 Garden St., Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of lecture by Helen Manogue at exhibition, From Another Time: Hoboken in the 1970s, HHM, Feb. 11, 2007.
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Digital images, 3, of marble dedication plaque on firehouse, Engine Co. 4, Newark and Observer Highway, Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of the Keuffel and Esser Co. Building clock tower, Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 3, of the Wavertree, an 1885 square-rigged cargo vessel, at South Street Seaport Museum, circa 1981-1983.
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Digital images, 3, of the exterior of the Neumann Leather building, 300 Observer Highway, Hoboken, July 12, 2007.
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Digital images, 3, of two visitors listening to "Hair" CD at exhibit, Hoboken Tunes, HHM, Hoboken, Sept. 18, 2007.
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Digital images, 3, of visitors to exhibition, "Hoboken Tunes: Our Musical Heritage," HHM Oct. 26, 2007.
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Digital images, 36, of Amada Ortega chapbook release party at the Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, June 30, 2007.
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Digital images, 4, Caroline Carlson photographing her work in exhibit, Hoboken in the 1970s, at the HHM, Hoboken, June 24, 2007.
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Digital images, 4, of Catherine Ruchovanksy of Hoboken with Girl Scouts apparel and drum, Elysian Park, Hoboken, June 8, 2007.
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Digital images, 4, of Girl Scouts oral history chapbook release event, HHM, Hoboken, Sept. 16, 2007.
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Digital images, 4, of Saints Peter & Paul Church, Fourth & Hudson Sts., Hoboken, Dec., 2003.
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Digital images, 4, of demolition of building 5, Maxwell House Coffee Plant, Hoboken, August 30, 2004.
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Digital images, 4, of riverfront walkway on southern waterfront, Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 4, of the exterior of Hoboken City Hall, view northwest, Hoboken, Oct. 22, 2005.
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Digital images, 4, of visitors to exhibition, From Another Time: Hoboken in the 1970s, HHM, Jan. 30, 2007.
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Digital images, 4, our visitors to exhibit, Hoboken in the 1970s, at the HHM, Hoboken, June 24, 2007.
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Digital images, 40, of reception celebrating the publication of Tom Olivieri oral history chapbook in HHM walkway, May 21, 2005.
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Digital images, 44, of the exterior of Hoboken City Hall, mostly the southern & western facades & details, Hoboken, Oct. 22, 2005.
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Digital images, 5, Museum booth at Hoboken Arts & Music Festival, Hoboken, Sept. 30, 2007.
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Digital images, 5, World War I Memorial Tablet on boulder at Pier A Park, Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 5, of Jack O'Brien with corps hat and fife in his apartment, Hoboken, September 4, 2004.
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Digital images, 5, of Michael Coleman lecture during exhibition, Hoboken in the 1970s, at the HHM, Hoboken, June 24, 2007.
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Digital images, 5, of Our Lady of Grace Church, Willow Avenue side, Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 5, of class visiting exhibition, Hoboken, The First Seventy-Five Years: 1855-1930, HHM, Hoboken, April 13, 2005.
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Digital images, 5, of craft vendor in walkway at the Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, May 30, 2007.
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Digital images, 5, of exhibition reception, Frank Hanavan: Part of the Landscape, Upper Gallery, HHM, Nov. 11, 2007.
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Digital images, 5, of exterior of Hoboken Public Library; dome and main entrance, Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 5, of exterior of robotic parking garage, 916 Garden St., Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 5, of the Wavertree en route with tugboat to the Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, ca. May-June 1981.
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Digital images, 6, of Bob Buzas playing ukelin as part of lecture for exhibit, Hoboken Tunes, HHM, Hoboken, Sept. 15, 2007.
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Digital images, 6, of Maxwell House Coffee Plant pier (pier 12) with dismantling of pier shed partially done, Hoboken, Sept. 3, 2004.
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Digital images, 6, of b+w photos of demolition of American Lead Pencil Co. buildings, 5th, Clinton & Willow, Hoboken, ca. 1963.
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Digital images, 6, of class of young children visiting exhibition, Hoboken 1855-1930: The First Seventy-Five Years, HHM, Hoboken, April 19, 2005.
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Digital images, 6, of construction of replacement building at SE corner of 14th & Hudson Sts., Nov. 18, 2003.
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Digital images, 7, of HHM volunteers marching in Memorial Day Parade, Hoboken, May 25, 2005.
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Digital images, 8, of HHM marquee case sign in bus shelter on Clinton St. near Eleventh St., Hoboken, March 29, 2005.
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Digital images, 8, of exhibit "On the Waterfront: Starring Hoboken, New Jersey" at Hoboken Historical Museum, 2004.
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Digital images, 8, of exhibit "On the Waterfront: Starring Hoboken, New Jersey" at Hoboken Historical Museum, 2004.
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Digital images, 8, of the general site & set-up for re-opening ceremony at Sybil's Cave, Hoboken, Oct. 21, 2008.
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Digital images, 8, of views from Hoboken towards N.Y. City from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, August 8, 2004.
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Digital images, 9, of education program at exhibit, Hoboken in the 1970s, Hoboken, June 7, 2007.
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Digital images, 9, of lecture by Joseph Barry at exhibition, From Another Time: Hoboken in the 1970s, HHM, Feb. 11, 2007.
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Digital images, article: "The Origins of Baseball" by Stephen E. Speiser (c. 1990) issued by The American Baseball Heritage, Inc., Hoboken, ca. 1990.
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Digital images, booklet: The Candidates & Platform of Regular Organization Democrats. Jersey City, N.J. General Election, Nov. 6,1951.
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Digital images, brochure: Budget Hearing held at Demarest High School, Hoboken, Thursday, March 8,1951.
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Digital images, magazine: "Hoboken's Ex-Cop Mayor is Making His City a Contender Again" re Steve Cappiello; "In the Know", Vol. 1, No. 4, August 1975
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Digital images, program: 16th Annual Affair of Hoboken Post No. 55, Jewish War Veterans of the U.S., Feb. 20, 1949 at Latin Quarter, N.Y.
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Digital images, six, of visitors at exhibition, From Another Time: Hoboken in the 1970s, HHM, Feb. 11, 2007.
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Digital images: Baseball logo artwork created in 1990 by Michael Vernaglia plus a 1990 press release about the logo.
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Digital images: Bulletin, Hoboken Lodge No. 74, B.P.O. Elks, Hoboken, April 1, 1949. Volume XXII, No. 4.
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Digital images: article "Power Station of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad." by Hugh Hazelton. Electric Railway Journal, Vol. XXXV, No. 10, March 5, 1910.
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Digital images: map from document titled Opinion - Taxability of the Hoboken Piers, ca. 1949-1952. See primary record 2005.079.0024 for full document.
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Digital images: typed letter signed by Ida Housman, Housman Better Government Assn., to Board of Commissioners, Aug. 3, 1952, re advocating pier lease
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Digital photo images of three U.S. currency one-dollar notes being the first dollars earned by John Muller, Hoboken, 1915-1927.
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Digital photos, 17, of Jim Hans & guests at book,100 Hoboken Firsts, publication party, HHM, Hoboken, Sept. 2005.
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Digital photos, 2, of the M.S. Oslofjord, Norwegian-America Line, seen listing in drydock, Hoboken, n.d., ca. Jan. 10, 1957.
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Digital photos, 21, of Hoboken streetscapes taken Sept. to late Oct. 2013 by Darian Worden.
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Digital photos, 29, of artist Frank Hanavan working on a painting of 921 Hudson Street, Hoboken, August 25, 2005.
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Digital photos, 9, of the Annual Tomato Tasting Festival, HHM, 1301 Hudson St., Hoboken, August 28, 2005.
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Digital print of sepia-tone photo of Gatti Paper Stock Corp. truck loaded with scrap paper, Hoboken, n.d., ca. 1920's.
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Digital reference file: Wikipedia article text: Frank Sinatra as found online, November 2010.
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, July 17, 2003. Image number 9132. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, July 17, 2003. Image number 9134. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, July 17, 2003. Image number 9135. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, July 17, 2003. Image number 9136. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8575. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8576. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8577. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8578. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8579. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8580. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8581. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8582. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8583. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8584. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8585. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of color aerial view of Hoboken, June 6, 2003. Image number 8586. Photographer, Lee Ross, "Aerial Photography by Rosspilot."
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Digital reference image of printed b+w photo by David Plowden of the ferry Elmira on its last run, Nov. 22, 1967.
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Digital reference image of printed photo, "Some of the Stevens Family Retainers at Castle Point, Hoboken, 1895"
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Digital reference image of printed photo, "The Grand Stairway of the Hudson River Steamer Albany, Fall of 1900."
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of Joe's Auto Repair, 219 Clinton St., Hoboken, no date, ca. 1990.
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Digital scan of color photo of New York Harbor with a vessel and tugboat, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of New York Harbor with the Verrazano Bridge, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of a passenger vessel with tugboat, location not given, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of a sunrise view of Hoboken & Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of a sunrise view of the Manhattan skyline from Jersey City Heights, Jersey City, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of lower Manhattan from the southeast, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of lower Manhattan from the southeast, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scan of color photo of passenger vessel, S.S. Oceanic, location not given, no date, circa 1970-1980.
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Digital scans from the book: Illustrations of Incidents in Tunnel Construction of H. & M. R. R. Co. Copyright, 1909, by Jacobs & Davies.
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