DescriptionSepia-tone photo of the west side of Ninth and Washington Streets, Hoboken, no date, circa prior to spring of 1890s and probably not earlier than 1885. Digital print from scan of a color laser photocopy. Original photographer not indicated. Reference print on file. Tiffs media archive. Original print (size unknown but estimated at 7-1/2" high x 12" wide as scaled from a thumbprint seen in the print to the left) was on a photographer's mounting board with a neatly hand-lettered title below it: 9,th. & Washington Sts. A winter time view west from a Hudson Street vantage point showing the intersection of the two streets. Washington Street, running left to right, has streetcar tracks and a street light (probably gas). The image is noteworthy for what it documents as not present: any buildings on the east side of Washington (circa numbers 901-913) north of Ninth Street and buildings on the west side of the street at numbers 900. 902, 904 and 908 (906 and 910 are seen.) No building appears at the southeast corner of Ninth and Washington Streets. At the northeast corner of Ninth and Bloomfield is an empty lot where in 1890 The First Baptist Church was constructed (cornerstone 1890). This element places the date of the photo as not later than the early months of 1890 when it would have been possible for snow to be present. Without the church to obstruct the view, a market, presumably a grocer or provisioner, is seen at the southwest corner of Bloomfield and Ninth Streets with a roof over the sidewalk display area on Bloomfield and extending around the corner on Ninth. And on the east side of Bloomfield in that area there are open lots at the southeast corner and north of Ninth.