Sepia-tone group photo: Hudson & Manhattan R.R. Co. Arrival at Church Street Terminal, New York, of the Directors and Officers on the FIRST TRAIN FROM HOBOKEN at 4:00 P.M., June 28, 1909.
Sepia-tone group photo: Hudson & Manhattan R.R. Co. Arrival at Church Street Terminal, New York, of the Directors and Officers on the FIRST TRAIN FROM HOBOKEN at 4:00 P.M., June 28, 1909.
Entry/Object ID
2014.013.0040
Description
Sepia-tone group photo: Hudson & Manhattan R.R. Co. Arrival at Church Street Terminal, New York, of the Directors and Officers on the FIRST TRAIN FROM HOBOKEN at 4:00 P.M., June 28, 1909.
7-1/2" x 9-1/2" wide print on imprinted mounting board, 12" high x 14" wide. Photographer not indicated. Reverse has a later (probably 1920s) 5-line pencil notation identifying William Gibbs McAdoo, President of the H&M, and "My Father," (name unknown and no identification of person who made this note.)
Pencil notation on reverse:
Tall man in center (looks a little like Abe Lincoln) is William Gibbs McAdoo - later Secretary of the Treasury who married one of Pres. Wilson's daughter.
My father is behind man in right center (with white mustache) who has his head tilted back a little.
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transportation / the tubes / "tubes" / H.&M. / H&M / souvenir / commemorative / PATH
Acquisition
Accession
2014.013
Source or Donor
Lukacs, Claire
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Museum Collections. Gift of a friend of the Museum.
Made/Created
Artist
n/a
Date made
1909
Place
Location
New York City
Dimensions
Height
11 in
Width
14 in
General Notes
Note
Notes: The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad inaugurated its first service on February 23, 1908 from Hoboken to 19th St. in New York. (Additional uptown service: 23rd St. started in June 1908; 33rd St, the uptown terminal, opened in November 1910.)
The train trip commemorated in this photo was to the downtown terminal in New York at Church Street (also listed as Cordlandt Street) which became Hudson Terminal (erected by the Hudson & Manhattan over the downtown terminal and then the largest office building in New York City and later a major portion of the site of the World Trade Center.) Regular train service to downtown actually started on July 19, 1909.
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McAdoo was Secretary of the Treasury from 1913-1918.
He married Eleanor Randolph Wilson, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson, on May 7, 1914 at the White House.
Original or Copy: Original
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2014-08-09
