Lantern slide: 52 (16762) Great Ocean Liners at the Docks, Hoboken, N.J. Keystone View Co., Factories, Meadville, Pa. No date, circa 1916-1917.
Entry/Object ID
2009.006.0011
Description
Lantern slide: 52 (16762) Great Ocean Liners at the Docks, Hoboken, N.J. Keystone View Co., Factories, Meadville, Pa. No date, circa 1916-1917. Glass with printed labels, 3-1/4" x 4" wide.
See photo 2012.001.0007 for another copy with different labeling (also has accompanying printed card with text describing the scene.)
Seen is a view north - northeast probably from the clock tower of the Lackawanna Terminal (the foreground is the ferry concourse rooftop) of the docks of the Hamburg-American Line and North German Lloyd Line. Two ships can be identified: the first passenger vessel at Pier 1 is the S.S. President Grant with the next being the Vaterland, both of the Hamburg-American Line.
This same image is also known as: 52 (16762) The Vaterland and other German ships seized by the U. S. when war was declared, Hoboken, N. J. (This would have been after the U.S. entry in World War I in April, 1917.) See notes.
View is also known to exist as a stereocard or stereoview - see photos 2002.069.0001.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.006
Source or Donor
Lukacs, Claire
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Museum Collections. Gift of a friend of the Museum.
Made/Created
Artist
Keystone View Co.
Date made
1916 - 1917
Place
Location
Hoboken
Notes
Date: 1916-1917
Condition
Overall Condition
Good
General Notes
Note
Notes: Elements in the image which help to date it:
The first passenger vessel at Pier 1 is the S.S. President Grant with the next being the Vaterland, both of the Hamburg-American Line. The Vaterland went into service in 1914 and was interned in that same year at Hoboken; the Grant went into service in 1907 and was interned in Hoboken in 1914. Both were confiscated in 1917 when the U.S. entered World War I. (The Vaterland became the U.S.S. Leviathan and the Grant the U.S.S. President Grant.)
At top left corner is a white building that is now known as the Lipton Tea building, but was erected in 1916 as the Hoboken Manufacturer's Terminal Building.
This view is referred to in (as of 2009 available in Google books):
Visual Education: Teachers' Guide to Keystone "Primary Set."
By Keystone View Company, Keystone View Company
Edition: revised
Published by Keystone View Company (Incorporated) Educational Dept., 1920
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Apr 10, 2007
188 pages
Original or Copy: Original
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2009-01-17
