Sepia-tone photo of Maxwell House Coffee plant under construction at Eleventh & Hudson Sts., Hoboken, winter, 1938-1939.
Entry/Object ID
2009.026.0101
Description
Sepia-tone photo of the Maxwell House Coffee plant under construction at Eleventh and Hudson Streets, Hoboken, winter, 1938-1939. Original print was 2-3/4" x 4-1/2" wide; reverse was blank; scanned 2009. Photograph taken by Robert C. Sylvester from home at 1026 Hudson St., Hoboken. Digital image only; enlarged inkjet reference print on file. Large, high resolution tiffs media archive.
Elevated view from the third or fourth floor of this apartment building is looking northeast. See notes.
Construction of the factory is well underway. A detail of the upper center shows the supports being used for concrete floor forms; it is not the metal structure for the neon sign.
At the left edge, the tall building is the former Nungesser-Dickinson Seed Company building, 1203-1209 Hudson Street, which was part of the Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard.
Related images are 2009.026.0100, which are photos, taken in 1938 by the same photographer and with the same viewpoint, of the Lawson Macmurray Lumber Company which occupied the site until 1938.
Acquisition
Accession
2009.026
Source or Donor
Sylvester, Robert C.
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Gift of Robert C. Sylvester.
Made/Created
Artist
Sylvester, Robert C.
Date made
1938 - 1939
Place
Location
Hoboken
Notes
Date: 1938-1939
General Notes
Note
Notes: The Lawson Macmurray Lumber Company had previously occupied the site.
The site was once part of Elysian Fields and the New York (later New Jersey) Yacht Club clubhouse was on the site. Other site users: Orient Steamship Line, Pennsylvannia Railroad, Dykes Lumber, U.S. Army Transport Service (as part of World War I Port of Embarkation and Debarkation).
The General Foods Maxwell House Coffee plant opened in 1939 and closed 1992. Demolished 2004; now on the site - residential buildings, Maxwell Place, Maxwell Place Park, along with new boathouse and waterfront walkway/pier.
Original or Copy: Digital copy
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2009-08-28
