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Photograph taken 8-31-57 according to the handwritten note on the reverse.

Black and white undated photo looking north across the waterfront, railroads and ferry terminal towards the Pier 7 Grain Elevator in West New York. The elevator, built in 1905 for the West Shore line of the NYCRR, had a capacity of 2 million bushels…

Photograph of the Weehawken waterfront and rail yards in the 1940s. From the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.

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…

Colored undivided postcard view from the Palisades in West Hoboken (now Union City) looking north over the railyards towards the Weehawken bluff. Postmarked September 13, 1907 from Weehawken.

This steel engraving was published on February 24, 1844 in the New Mirror (a periodical published in New York). The artist was William James Bennett. The view looks north towards the Palisades. Highwood, the home of James Gore King, is seen center.…

Black and white photo of the Banana building and the NY skyline IN 1965. From the collection of Leo Her via Thomas Cheplic.

Colored photo postcard of a painting of the duelling place of Burr and Hamilton by E.C. Coates. Issued by the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, New York.

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

This image was provided by Tom Flagg, a print collector and industrial archaeologist hailing from across the Hudson in NYC. He writes: View of New York Taken from Weehawk is No. 1 in Milbert's book, Itineraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson…