DescriptionBlack-and-white photo looking east on Seventeenth Street from west side of Willow Avenue at 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. This photo is a closer view (taken nearer to Willow or with a different lense) of photo 2011.048.0056 probably taken on the same day. 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. Seventeenth Street can be seen to consist of only multiple tracks and no traffic lanes of any kind. At the center of Willow Avenue are four stanchions with ropes that were seen in other pictures. There is no white line present as seen in some other photos in this series. (The photo does relate to a group where stanchions & ropes are seen in the center of the street, but the number of people present and the weather are different.) Note the bridge overpass on Park Avenue. Beyond it is a sign on a large building: Tietjen and Lang Plant. This was Todd Shipyards Corporation, Tietjen & Lang Plant or Yard. 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.