DescriptionBlack-and-white documentation photo for Holland Tunnel: 6159. South Tunnel after flooding of tunnel of April 5, 1924 New York. April 24, 1924, 7:35 a.m. Digital image only; from modern reproduction print, 8" x 10" wide, apparently made from print in album 2012.017.0001. Reverse has clipped photocopy of text typewritten on the reverse of the linen mount of album print. This image is from the personal papers of John C. McEnroe who was the Secretary of the New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission. It was the New Jersey authority cooperating with a New York Commission for overseeing the project. He died on June 2, 1925. Print was an enclosure in a photograph album, photo catalog 2012.017.0001 where an original exists. Caption from reverse: 6159 1 4/21/24 7.35 a.m. South Tunnel after flooding of tunnel of April 5, 1924 New York. View of south, tunnel just east of safety screen which is at Ring 445. Picture taken after the water was pumped out. (Taken from same position as photo. No. 6158 which was taken of the flooded tunnel on Apr. 3, 1924). Booth & Flinn, Ltd., Contractors. Camera set up on transit platform at Ring 425 and facing west; air pressure 29 lbs. [end reverse caption]