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Steam Elevator at Weehawken

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Black and white photograph(1895) of the great elevator from the book, The Hackensack Water Company 1869 - 1969 by Adrian Leiby and Nancy Wichman. The caption reads: Steam elevator at Weehawken which lowered passenger-laden trolleys and other vehicles…

View of New York from Weehawken Heights, New Jersey

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Engraving from Harpers New Monthly Magazine - Volume 69, Number 410 - July 1884. In those days, the Brooklyn Bridge was visible from Weehawken!

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From the New York Gazette: New Invention

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Newspaper article from the New England Palladium and Commercial Advertiser - Number 28, Volume XLIX - Tuesday, October 5, 1819 - Published in Boston Article on a new horse powered ferry running from Spring Street Manhattan to Weehawken. A boat of 200…

Weehawken, N. Jersey

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Engraving of Weehawken Bluff, with Highwood in the distance. In the foreground, two boats are engaged in transporting a large load of salt hay, a valuable crop used for insulation, construction and as packing material. Harvested in salt marshes, it…

Wagon Hoist, from Weehawken to West Hoboken, N.J.

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Colored photo postcard of elevator for raising wagons up the Palisades to Weehawken Street in West Hoboken (now 19th Street, Union City). The elevator was built in 1874 by John H. Bonn's railroad company. Cars were 20 feet wide, 40 feet long and…

Railroad Has 72 Per Cent Grade

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At Weehawken, New Jersey, there is one of the queerest railways ever built. It is a 300 ft. incline with a grade of 72 per cent. Cars 20 ft. wide and 40 ft. long capable of carrying a load of 50,000 lb. are used on the line. These cars are operated…

West Shore RR Terminal and Ferry

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View from the river with a ferryboat at dock.

Matchbook - Union Dry Dock

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Advertising matchbook for the Union Dry Dock & Repair Co., located on the Weehawken waterfront, adjacent to Pershing Road. The company was incorporated in 1908 and later moved to Hoboken's waterfront.  

Train and Work Crews at the Bergen Tunnel

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Black and white photograph. Work and train crews pose for the lensman circa 1883 shortly after the opening of the Bergen Tunnel. Rock blasted from the tunnel was used as fill on the riverfront to increase the size of the [railroad's] property. From…

1930s View of O&W Piers

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1930s view of the coal piers of the Ontario and Western Railway terminal with the New York City skyline beyond. From Marine Line Equipment - January-September 1992, published by the Ontario and Western Railway Historical Society.