DescriptionBlack-and-white photo looking west on Seventeenth Street, taken west of Willow Avenue on the railroad right-of-way; streetcar tracks and freight rail crossing, Hoboken, no date, (1927). 8" x 10" wide print. Photograph by R. Magnus, Photographer, Hoboken (blind emboss lower right.) Reverse has modern pencil text: Willow + 17th St. In this series of photos, 2011.048.0042 to 2011.048.0059, photo 2011.048.0045 (the photo in the record here) has a 1927 New Jersey automobile license plate which can be read and photo 2011.048.0058 has a poster for an event dated as Saturday, September 24th which corresponds to a Saturday in 1927. Tracks of the New York Central Railroad, Erie Railroad and the primary right-of-way holder, New Jersey Junction Railroad. Seventeenth Street can be seen to consist of only multiple tracks and no traffic lanes of any kind. Note in a left detail an industrial building with open framing on the south side of the tracks at about Adams or Grand Streets. This building is also seen in 2011.048.0057 with lumber or timber stacked next to it. This difference suggests that the photo here and .0057, which include some common elements, were taken on different dates. This photo is from an accession group that consists of photographs from Hoboken Police Department records. Discarded in the 1990s, the original documentary purpose of this photo is not stated or apparent.