B+W photo looking west on 17th St. across Willow Ave. from east of Willow; streetcar tracks & freight rail crossing, Hoboken, n.d., (1927).

Photograph

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Hoboken Historical Museum

full print

full print

Name/Title

B+W photo looking west on 17th St. across Willow Ave. from east of Willow; streetcar tracks & freight rail crossing, Hoboken, n.d., (1927).

Entry/Object ID

2011.048.0057

Description

Black-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 and photo 2011.048.0058 has a poster for an event dated as Saturday, September 24th which corresponds to a Saturday 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. The stanchions and ropes seen in the center of Willow Avenue where the streetcar tracks cross the railroad tracks. This image is apparently related to other images in this series with the white line seen drawn from the southeast corner of Willow Avenue and Seventeenth St. to circa 1718 Willow Ave, the Lehigh Coal Supply Co. Note in left detail photo the Yardley Soap building under construction (600 Palisade Ave., Union City.) 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.

Acquisition

Accession

2011.048

Source or Donor

Bergin, Bill

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Bill Bergin.

Made/Created

Artist

Magnus, R.

Date made

1927

Place

Location

Hoboken

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

10 in

General Notes

Note

Original or Copy: Original Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2012-08-21