DescriptionColor photographs, eleven, of site for proposed oil tank farm on Hoboken/Weehawken border at Weehawken Cove, Hoboken & Weehawken, March 1974. 2-1/4" square mounted Ektachrome transparencies (see accession notes), dated Mar 74 on slide mount. Photographer not indicated, but attributed to Ted Conrad of Jersey City. Group in box labeled: Oil Tank Site March 74. Once part of Ted Conrad Collection and some may have been published by the Hudson City Historical Society. Images document an area of northeastern Hoboken and southern Weehawken that were that the proposed site of an oil storage and transfer facility (Cosmopolitan Terminal, Inc.; essentially an oil tank farm). It was to occupy the former site of Todd Shipyards in Weehawken Cove and land up to the former Lipton Tea/Standard Brands building in Hoboken. It was never built due to community opposition. Some of the buildings and places seen in this group: Cosmopolitan Terminal, Inc. Eighteenth St. Fifteenth St. Franklin Baker Company Lipton Tea Park Ave. Saint Lawrence Church Saint Lawrence Street Seventeenth St. Sixteenth St. Todd Shipyards Corporation United States Testing Co., Inc. Weehawken Weehawken Cove Willow Ave. 1: view southeast from Park Avenue of former Lipton Tea / Standard Brands building (left) and the former Franklin Baker building. 2: view east of the northwest corner of the former Franklin Baker building. 6: Cosmopolitan Terminal, Inc., field office 11: St. Lawrence Church; 18th & St. Lawrence St. Place