DescriptionBlack-and-white photo looking west on Seventeenth Street from east 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. West. 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. The photo here, 2011.048.0058, has a poster advertising boxing matches dated as Saturday, September 24th which corresponds to a Saturday in 1927. At the bottom the fight card included a boxer named Saffer, which could have been either an Eddie or Joe Saffer, both of whom were active 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. Seventeenth Street can be seen to consist of only multiple tracks and no traffic lanes of any kind. The crossing gates are up. View is northwest and no people are seen except a railroad employee in the east window of the railroad control tower. See comments above regarding dated poster on a telephone pole at the left. 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.