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Scope and ContentNewspaper article: HOBOCAN HACKINGH A Decription of This City When it was an Island. A Most Picturesque Place Author Winfield's Says "The English Language Has Been Exhausted to Describe Its Beauty and Attractiveness" - The First Ferry. (Extracts from Winfield's History of Hoboken.) Published Friday, January 17, 1896 in a local newspaper (name not known, but display ads on reverse are Hoboken businesses.) A long (not full height) single column (scanned image is in overlapping sections.) The clipping was part of series of at least 14 extracts taken from Winfield's history and credited in the title as "Extracts from Winfield's History of Hoboken." This one is probably the sixth. They were all published in published in January and dated by the collectors, Matthias H. and May Georgia Taylor of 525 Garden St., in pencil or ink. This source text was: Hopoghan Hackingh. Hoboken, A Pleasure Resort for Old New York. This work was an 80-page history of the city written by Charles H. Winfield and published by Caxton Press, New York in 1895. See library catalog 2004.056.0001 for the original source. The article may be considered as promotion for the volume.