Name/Title
Photo illustration: wagon / truck elevator or incline, Marshall Street between Ferry & 1st Streets, Hoboken, 1907.Entry/Object ID
2013.005.0057Scope and Content
Photo illustration: wagon / truck elevator or incline, Marshall Street between Ferry (later Observer Highway) and First Streets, Hoboken, 1907.
Published black-and-white photographic illustration with caption; plate removed from source publication, Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering, Chicago et al. First published in 1908, this work had more than one imprint and went through several printings or editions into the 1920s. Leaf is printed one side, 6-5/16" x 9-3/8" high.
View is northwest; not seen is that at the bottom of the elevator were four railroad tracks that elevator traffic had to cross.
Caption:
A PECULIAR EXAMPLE OF HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
By means of the truck elevators here shown, the roadway is carried over the steep bluffs of the Palisades of the Hudson at Hoboken, N. J.
Copyright, 1907, by Underwood & Underwood, New YorkAcquisition
Accession
2013.005Source or Donor
Lukacs, ClaireAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Museum Collections. Gift of a Friend of the Museum.Archive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1907 - 1920Archive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1907-1920 ca
Date(s): 1907-1920General Notes
Note
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2013-03-26
