B+W photo negative of SW Hoboken & Jersey City from Riverview Park, Jersey City, n.d., ca. 1906.

Photograph

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Hoboken Historical Museum

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Name/Title

B+W photo negative of SW Hoboken & Jersey City from Riverview Park, Jersey City, n.d., ca. 1906.

Entry/Object ID

2014.066.0002

Description

Black-and-white photographic negative of southwest Hoboken and Jersey City from Riverview Park, Jersey City, no date, circa 1906. 4" x 5" glass plate negative (see accession notes.) Photographer not indicated. Scratch in marginal emulsion: Plate #1. Gummed paper label enclosure: Bower St. and Ogden Av 1905 - River View Park. PDF on file. From the archives of Ted Conrad. View is southeast from an elevated view in Jersey City Heights apparently near the intersection of Bower Street and Ogden Avenue. It shows the southwestern part of Hoboken where this is still marshland not yet filled in an area bounded by Third - Fourth Streets and Jackson - Harrison Streets? Drainage and fill has yet to be done is a smaller area in the next block south of the main pond seen. Detail 1: left - the steel skeletal structure of the clock tower for the new Lackawanna Terminal is seen, which would date this photograph as no earlier than the end of 1905, but more likely 1906. Detail 2: center left - painted fence or building signs in Hoboken, probably on Third Street: Frank Cordt's Furniture, cor. Washington & 2nd, Hob'n; Cordts & Katencamp, 218 First St. cor. Park Ave. Both retail businesses were in Hoboken and were related. Cordts & Katencamp signage offers more detail about them: oil cloth, carpets, stoves, furniture. "We trust everybody $1.00 a week" Detail 3: right center - view to Jersey showing a mix of industrial and residential structures; note at the bottom marshland in the next block south of block in detail 3. Detail 4: center - view of the Jersey City waterfront with the Central Railroad of New Jersey terminal and other waterfront railroad structures; lower Manhattan skyline of New York City is seen in the distance.

Acquisition

Accession

2014.066

Source or Donor

Brown, Doris Conrad

Acquisition Method

Loan

Credit Line

Gift of Doris Conrad Brown.

Made/Created

Artist

n/a

Date made

1906

Place

Location

Jersey City/Hoboken

General Notes

Note

Original or Copy: Digital copy Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-10-13