Postcard: view of the Todd Shipyards, Hoboken, N.J., no date, circa 1944-1950.
Entry/Object ID
2008.012.0099
Description
Postcard: view of the Todd Shipyards, Hoboken, N.J., no date, circa 1944-1950. Unposted. Real photo postcard (EKC stamp block); undivided back. 3-3/8" high x 5-3/5" wide. Photographer is not indicated.
EKC = Eastman Kodak Company. The style has been listed as being in use from 1930 to 1950 although one source states it was limited to 1945-1950.
View is west - northwest of what is commonly called Weehawken Cove with Union City in the far background. The Hoboken-Weehawken border passes through the site, but the company used a Hoboken address.
In the right background is the large Todd Shipyards Corp. sign (building was actually in Weehawken) which was built when the drydock yard was expanded in 1943-1944. The ship in the right foreground is the Pan American, an oil tanker of the Pan American Petroleum & Refinery Company, which went was delivered to its owner on Dec. 23, 1937. Names on other vessels are not fully legible.
Acquisition
Accession
2008.012
Source or Donor
Lukacs, Claire
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Museum Collections. Gift of a friend of the Museum.
