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Toll receipts, two, from the Holland Tunnel, Nov. 19, 1927. Souvenirs of a roundtrip.
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Toll receipts, two, from the Holland Tunnel, November 19, 1927.
Machine imprinted paper, two-part form with horizontal perforation, 3-3/8 or 3-7/16" high x 3-5/8" wide. Reverse imprinted with traffic rules. Penciled notes on reverse of each as detailed below.
The receipts were kept as souvenirs of what was apparently the first trip through the tunnel a week after it opened for the four listed people (first names only) on the back of each. (Items are from a group attributed to a "Mr. Grant", probably of Jersey City; see related items, archives 2012.007.0012 and .0013.) It was a roundtrip. One noted that to New York and back took ten minutes. The tunnel was a destination as a sightseeing trip in its early days.
Both were for fifty cents which was the toll for automobiles.
1: November 19, 1927; tan; transaction number 16590.
This one is 3-7/16" high.
Reverse has pencil notes:
Tunnel opened November 12 1927
Nash 1927 [underlined; car brand and model year?]
Eve Ed Emma + Geo [George]
2: November 19, 1927; tan; transaction number 11339.
Reverse has pencil notes:
Tunnel opened Nov 12 1927
to New York + back in
10 minutes [underlined]
Eve - Ed . Emma + Geo [George]
Nash 1927
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At this time, the tunnel was still under two administrative jurisdictions as imprinted at the front bottom:
New York State Bridge and Tunnel Commission and New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission.
Adminstration Bldg., N.Y., Cor. Canal & Varick Sts.
2012.007.0014
2012.007
Lukacs, Claire
Gift
Museum Collections. Gift of a Friend of the Museum.
1927 - 1927
Date(s) Created: 1927 Date(s): 1927
Good
Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2012-02-16