DescriptionBlack-and-white photo looking south on Willow Avenue from Seventeenth Street; 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 + 16th [sic - 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. Street level streetcar or trolley tracks on Willow Ave. are Public Service Coordinated Transport. The railroad crossing signs are for tracks of the New York Central Railroad, Erie Railroad and the primary right-of-way holder, New Jersey Junction Railroad. On the east side (left) are four stanchions with ropes that were seen in other pictures, but here they have been moved to cordon off a different and larger area. The white line is still seen that runs diagonally across the intersection of Willow and 17th St. 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.