Color photos, 11, of site for proposed oil tank farm on Hoboken/Weehawken border at Weehawken Cove, Hoboken & Weehawken, March 1974.

Photograph

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Hoboken Historical Museum

1: former Lipton Tea/ Standard Brands Building (left); Baker's Coconut

1: former Lipton Tea/ Standard Brands Building (left); Baker's Coconut

Name/Title

Color photos, 11, of site for proposed oil tank farm on Hoboken/Weehawken border at Weehawken Cove, Hoboken & Weehawken, March 1974.

Entry/Object ID

2014.066.0033

Description

Color 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

Acquisition

Accession

2014.066

Source or Donor

Brown, Doris Conrad

Acquisition Method

Loan

Credit Line

Gift of Doris Conrad Brown.

Made/Created

Artist

Conrad, Ted

Date made

1974

Place

Location

Hoboken/Jersey City

General Notes

Note

Original or Copy: Digital copy Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-08-14