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Wright Family Home in The Shades
Black and white photo, circa 1900. This ivy-covered house was the last building on 19th Street in the Shades before the cliffs. From the collection of Mark Wright.
Undated Photograph of a Creek in the Shades
According to Jim Chieco, an ex-Weehawkenite now making his home in Fresno, CA, this picture was probably taken from Hoboken. Jim writes that "...today it would be well behind the dump company where the old Coal Buildingwas to the left in the picture.…
The West 19th St. Methodist Episcopal Church in 1966
Black and white photo of the church as it appeared in 1966. The church had closed its doors by this time and would shortly be demolished. From the collection of Mark Wright.
The West 19th St. Methodist Episcopal Church in 1916
This sepia toned photograph of the ME Church in the Shades (circa 1916) is From the collection of Mark Wright
The Sunbonnet Sues of the Shades
Sepia tone photograph from the collection of Mark Wright, who tells us that the Sunbonnet Sues were a social club which was probably associated with the ME Church in the Shades. Click above for more pictures and information about the Sues and their…
The Shades - Chestnut and West 19th Streets - 1892
Black and white photograph dated 1892, showing the foot of Chestnut St. and West 19th Street and Pete Haye's stables in the Shades. According to a Shades inhabitant: Around where the horse and wagon are would be a place called the well - most people…
The Reverend Frank E. Wittkamp of the 19th Street ME Church
Sepia toned photograph of The Reverend Frank E. Wittkamp (born c. 1886 in Pennsylvania), a young and popular pastor to the West 19th St. M.E. Church, standing in front of the church. Wittkamp left in 1915 and went to Stone Ridge Church in NY (now the…
The Legend of Weehawken
Clipping from the Hudson Observer, marked November 28, 1950 with a highly suspect "Legend of Weehawken" involving a "Chief Wee Hawk," an Indian burial ground in The Shades, and honest to goodness chain dragging Lenni-Lenape ghosts.
The Gang at Butch Worsocki's Bar - 1920s/1930s
Eileen Kelly sent in this black and white photograph with the following note: I have attached a photo of my maternal grandfather's (William O'Donnell) two older brothers along with a group of men in front of Butch Worsocki's Bar #1 Grand Street…
Steps from lower Weehawken to West Hoboken, N.J.
A long flight of stairs in the Shades. Look closely and you'll see some people walking down as well as someone at the top of the flight.
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Morgan Street, Weehawken, N.J.
Hand colored photo postcard of Morgan Street, which was in Union Hill, and became 40th Street in 1926. The image does look like Weehawken. It was not…