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DescriptionDigital image of stereocard - Cable Road, Hoboken, N.J. No place [N.Y.?], no date, ca.1886 -1900. American Views [no.] 520. No other publisher information (reverse was blank.) Original card 6-7/8" wide x 3-1/2" high. Single albumen print with two images mounted on board, each varied in size: left was 3-1/8" high x 3-" wide; right was 3-1/8" high x 2-7/8" wide. Captioning and number in images. View is looking east at the elevated streetcar railroad built in 1886, Hoboken Inclined Cable Railway. It originated at the street railway / trolley terminal adjacent to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and ferry terminal. See photos 2012.001.0197 for another stereoview of this scene from another publisher. It appears to be the same photograph. The photograph itself was taken from a Jersey City vantage point. ---- stereoview / stereo view / stereopticon / stereoscope / photo / photograph