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Public High School, Highwood Park, NJ

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This hand colored undivided photo postcard has an interesting mistake - the caption originally placed Highwood Park in New York. It seems to have been corrected using a rubber stamp made for the purpose. Thanks to Craig Losche for pointing out that…

Print - The Water Tower

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A colored print of the Hackensack Water Company's Water Tower in Weehawken, NJ from American Architect and Building News, issue number 402, dated September 5th, 1883.

Postcard of an unidentified house

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This black and white photo postcard from the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission depicts an unidentified house. According to Time Machine user Steve Silverman, this house "Looks very similiar to the house I grew up in in Weehawken at 51…

Photographs - Removal of Reiner Factory Water Tank

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These photos, from the collection of Tom Cheplic, show the removal of the water tank from the top of the Robert Reiner factory building. Tom remembers this as having taken place in June or July, 1997.

Photograph - Backs of Sterling Avenue Houses

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Black and white photo postcard looking southwest, showing a row of houses on Sterling Avenue, with Boulevard East below. The card likely dates to about 1910, when those homes were built. This card was published by the Rectigraph Co. of 120 Blum…

Park View Avenue and Highwood Terrace Looking North from Boulevard

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Hand colored photo postcard, looking north at Highwood Avenue at left, Duer Place with Highwood Firehouse, and large home with flagpole fronting Boulevard East. Postmarked from Mineola, NY

Park Avenue and Broadway - Union Hill, NJ

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Colored photo postcard of the Flat Iron building at the junction of Broadway and Park Avenue. Postmarked August 30, 1915 from Weehawken.

NY & NJ Crematory - Weehawken, NJ - Telephone 219 Union

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A black and white postcard photo of an institution that Weehawkenites were just dying to get into. Actually located at 4101 Kennedy Boulevard in North Bergen, NJ. Was originally Becker's Castle, enlarged in 1907. Currently called Garden State…

North Hudson Hospital, Weehawken, N.J.

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An early black and white photo postcard of the North Hudson Hospital looking from across Park Avenue in Union City - note the lack of landscaping around the building. This would date the photo to about 1911, when the construction on the building was…

North Hudson Hospital, Weehawken, N.J.

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Colored photo postcard of North Hudson Hospital, located on Park Avenue, between Clifton and Columbia Terraces. Postmarked April 30, 1915 from West Hoboken.