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Greetings from Hoboken: A Postcard History.
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Greetings from Hoboken: A Postcard History. A Publication of the Hoboken Historical Museum.[Hoboken, N.J., 2008.] First edition; softcover issue. (There was also a hardcover edition limited to 250 numbered copies.) No ISBN. Oblong 4to. pp. xvi, 197, [3]. Illustrated with reproductions of over 360 postcards. Copy 8.
Companion book to an exhibition with the same title. Issued August 2, 2008. Book was dedicated to the memory of Doug Donkin (a Museum volunteer.)
Forty-six chapters by postcard topics or subjects as listed in the table of contents (note: several of the chapter titles were listed incorrectly as indicated by brackets; additional information is offered here in parentheses for some topics.)
Greetings from Hoboken (cards that generally used that motto)
Humor
Lackawanna Terminal
Hoboken Ferry
Trolleys
1905 [Terminal] Fire
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
Post Office
River Street
Banks
Hamburg-American [Line]
North German Lloyd [Line]
1900 Fire
Port of Embarkation
Y.M.C.A. Hudson Hut
1921 Fire (sic - Fires)
Holland America [Line]
Sybil's Cave & River Walk
Elysian Fields
Boat Clubs
Hudson Square Park (Stevens Park)
Stevens Castle
Stevens Institute of Technology
14th [Fourteenth] Street Ferry
Shipyard
New York from Hoboken
Chocolate & Straw (Fires - Chocolate Menier Co. & Hoboken Straw Works)
City Hall
Washington Street
Hudson Street
Eleventh Street
Church Square Park
Hudson County Park (Columbus Park)
Elysian Park
Street Scenes
Public Library
Saint Mary Hospital
Embarkation Hospital (part of the Port of Embarkation operations)
Churches
Businesses
Hotels
Theaters
Up to the Heights (One Hundred Steps, Hoboken Steps or Franklin Street Steps)
Bars & Restaurants
Clubs
Oblong 4to softcover
2008.003.0046
2008.003
Staff / Produced by
Produced by Staff
Museum Collections.
Hoboken Historical Museum
Hoboken
2008 - 2008
Date: 2008-2008 Copy No.: 8
Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2008-11-13