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Souvenir of Hoboken, N.J.: Photo-gravures. Brooklyn: The Albertype Co.; A. Wittmann; Lischke, Hoboken; n.d. (circa 1902-1905).
2014.013.0004
2014.013
Lukacs, Claire
Gift
Museum Collections. Gift of a friend of the Museum.
1902 - 1905
Date(s) Created: 1902-1905 ca Date(s): 1902-1905
Good
Notes: Archives 2014.013.0004 ==== [1] SOUVENIR OF .. HOBOKEN, N. J.. PHOTO-GRAVURES Sole Depot: J. A. LISCHKE’S, Book and Stationery Store, 93 River Street, near Hamburger Piers, Hoboken, N. J. The Albertype Co., BROOKLYN, N. Y. Copyright by A. WITTEMANN, Publisher of American Views. 250 Adams St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ==== [2]: The "Deutschland" Hamburg-American Line (H.A.P.A.G.) Docks [3] River Street, from Ferry Street; Delaware Hotel [note: view is from Hudson Place] [4] North German Lloyd New Terminal, Hoboken, N.J. (A bird's-eye artist's view of the new headhouses and piers that were to replace those destroyed or damaged in the 1900 fire; the rendering is dated 1902. View would be northeast.) [5] Hudson Trust Co.; Newark Street (View is west from Hudson Street.) [6] Hoboken Ferry (View is northwest from on the Hudson River with the ferry terminal at the left and Hamburg American Lines piers to the right.) [7] Hudson Street; Naegele's [sic - Naegeli's] Hotel; Busch's Hotel; Meyer's Hotel (View is north to Third Street; Meyer's - or Meyers - was at the southeast corner of Third.) [8] Docks of the Holland-American Line; Steamer Statendam (View is east of the Fifth Street Pier of Holland America Line or by its Dutch name, N.A.S.M.) [9] Washington Street; Hoboken Bank for Savings; City Hall (View is north on Washington from south of Newark Street; the Observer newspaper office is at the left edge.) [10] Free Public Library (View is northwest from Church Square Park of Hoboken Public Library exterior at northwest corner of Fifth Street and Park Avenue.) [11] Hudson Street, from Ferry Street [Hudson Place]; Hudson Trust Co.; Lyric Theater. (View is north.) [12] Pennsylvania Ferry Docks - Jersey City (Pennsylviania Railroad terminal.) [13] Empire Theatre. (Address was 118 Hudson St.) [14] Ferry Street and Ferry Building; Trust Co. of New Jersey; D.L. & W. Depot (View is east on Hudson Place with sheds at the right being part of the North Hudson County Railway - streetcar/trolley lines; note archaic term "Depot" is used for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad terminal - by time of publication's issue, it was commonly known as Lackawanna Terminal.) [15] Stevens Institute (View is north of the building on Fifth Street between River Street, to the right, and Hudson Street; also known as the Main Building or "A" (for administration) Building and presently as Edwin A. Stevens Hall.) [16] Soldiers' Monument - Hudson Park (View is northeast from Hudson Street to where the Civil War memorial is placed in the park; a boy and girl are posed near the fence surrounding it; the two cannons that now flank it are not seen here, they were added in 1905. Park became Stevens Park in 1955.) [17] Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering (View southeast of the Stevens Institute of Technology building on east side of Hudson Street midblock between Fifth and Sixth Streets.) [18] St. Matthaeu's [sic- Matthew's] Evangelical Lutheran Church - Hudson Street. (View is north on Hudson to the Church on the southeast corner of Eighth Street.) [19] Deutscher Club (View northwest on Hudson to the corner of Sixth Street; club was also known as the German Club, later became the Union Club; address 600 Hudson St.) [20] First Presbyterian Church (View is east of the church on the northwest corner of Sixth and Hudson Streets; demolished; 601 Hudson St.) [21] Washington Street, North from 7th Street.; First Methodist Church; Trinity Church. (View is northeast.) [22] Hoboken Quartett Club - Washington Street. (View is southeast; 1009-1019 Washington Street; dissolved in 1906. The building became the Gayety Theatre circa 1907; later (circa 1916) The Strand Theatre. Note the empty lot at the right which is where the Elks Lodge was erected in 1905.) [23] Holy Innocents Episcopal Church - Willow Avenue.; American Lead Pencil Co. (View is southeast of the parish building at the southeast corner of Sixth and Clinton Street; the church, at the left edge, is indeed at the corner of Sixth and Willow Ave. The buildings of pencil factory stretch to Fifth Street and covered the entire block abutting the church property.) [24] Columbus [sic - Columbia] Club - Bloomfield and 11th Streets.; The Marguerite. (View is northeast across Eleventh Street. The apartment building labeled The Marguerite is 106 Eleventh St. Also seen to the right is the intersection of Washington and 11th Streets. [25] St. Mary's R.C. Church (View is northwest of the church on Willow Avenue at the corner of Fourth Street. A Roman Catholic church (cathedral) known presently as Our Lady of Grace. Also seen to the right of the church (up to Fifth Street) is the parish house, orphanage and parochial school.) [26] St. Mary's Hospital (View is northwest of the Willow Avenue facade of the building then between Third and Fourth Streets; 308 Willow Ave.) [27] R.C. Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Hudson Street.; St. Josephs R.C. Church, Meadow Street. (Both are Roman Catholic. Left is a view north of the earlier Saints Peter & Paul church at 404 Hudson Street. Right is a view east of Saint Joseph's at 61 Monroe St., between First and Ferry (now Observer) Streets. It is incorrectly stated as located on Meadow Street - which was the old name for Park Avenue.) [28] Viaduct of the Jersey City Heights & Paterson Electric Railway. (Name was an early one used for this streetcar line. It was actually: Jersey City, Hoboken and Paterson Electric Railway. Incorporated 1893 and leased from 1894-1899 to the New Jersey Electric Railway Company. View is east towards Hoboken from the Heights showing the elevated tracks on trestles rising from Hoboken.) [29] Hoboken, N.J. (A fold-out panoramic bird's-eye view north from Jersey City Heights at approximately where the streetcar trestle landed on the heights.) [end] ==== ==== Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-04-15