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B+W photo negative of southwest Hoboken from Ferry to 2nd Sts., Hoboken, n.d., ca. 1913-1918.
Photograph
Black-and-white photographic negative of southwest Hoboken from Ferry to Second Streets; taken from Jersey City Heights, Hoboken, no date, circa 1913-1918.
4" x 5" wide glass plate negative (see accession notes). Photographer not indicated. PDF on file.
Once part of Ted Conrad Collection and may have been published by the Hudson City Historical Society.
View is southwest. Note the Woolworth Building is seen in the lower Manhattan skyline (built 1912-1913; opened April 1913).
Detail 1, left: Prudential Insurance "Rock of Gibralter" sign atop 68-70 Hudson St.; Lackawanna Terminal clock tower seen beyond it.
Detail 2, right: St. Joseph's Church (61, 65-69 Monroe St.), St. Joseph's Parochial School (75 Jackson St.)
Detail 3, lower center & right: incline trestle west of Marshall Street for streecar lines.
Reference image of detail from Hopkins 1909 Atlas, plate 3.
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southwest / drainage
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signs:
Empire Bologna & Provision
Ivanhoe Tobacco
2014.066.0012
2014.066
Brown, Doris Conrad
Loan
Gift of Doris Conrad Brown.
n/a
1913 - 1918
Hoboken/Jersey City
Date: 1913-1918
Original or Copy: Digital copy Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-08-14