Black-and-white documentation photo for Holland Tunnel: 2311. Contract No. 5. N.Y. Telephone Co. cables at Canal & Hudson Streets, New York, Dec. 2, 1924, 3:20 p.m.
Digital image only; from modern reproduction print, 8" x 10" wide, apparently made from print in album 2012.017.0001. Reverse is blank.
This image is from the personal papers of John C. McEnroe who was the Secretary of the New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission. It was the New Jersey authority cooperating with a New York Commission for overseeing the project. He died on June 2, 1925. Print was an enclosure in a photograph album, photo catalog 2012.017.0001, where there is also an original of it with full caption.
Caption as typewritten on reverse of original print in album:
2311
5 12/2/24 3.20 P.M.
Contract No. 5
N. Y. Telephone Co. cables at Canal & Hudson St. New York
View showing N.Y. Telephone Co. cables crossing tunnel at Canal & Hudson St. before relocation. Rodgers & Hagerty, Inc. contractors. Camera set up on timbers 6 ft. below street surface near north neat line at centre line Sta. 93 /- 25 looking south-east.
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Acquisition
Accession
2012.017
Source or Donor
Quinn, Bridget
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
John. C. McEnroe Papers - Gift of the McEnroe Family.
Made/Created
Artist
n/a
Date made
1924
Place
Location
Holland Tunnel/New York City
General Notes
Note
Notes: Museum does not hold the original print; it remains in the family of John C. McEnroe.
Image information from New York Public Library Digital Gallery for the print number:
Image Title: Contract No. 5. N.Y. Telephone Co. cables at Canal & Hudson Streets, New York, 12/2/24, 3:20 p.m.
Additional Name(s): New Jersey. Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission -- Compiler
Item/Page/Plate: 111
Notes: 2311
Source: Photographs of the construction of the Holland Tunnel, 1919-1927. / New Jersey Interstate Bridge & Tunnel Commission.
Source Description: 3 albums. 13-23 cm.
Location: Science, Industry and Business Library / General Collection Division
Catalog Call Number: VDF+ (New Jersey. Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission. Photographs of the construction of the Holland Tunnel)
Digital ID: 435318
Record ID: 244571
Digital Item Published: 2-3-2004; updated 3-25-2011
Original or Copy: Digital copy
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2012-04-05
