Photographs showing scenes of freight cars on the Westside of Manhattan circa 1900

Accession ACC-2008-093. Unprocessed - MSS. MSS papers and collections

Description

The accession consists of eight 8x10 inch black-and-white photographs mounted on board that were part of a report issued by the Committee of Engineers on the elimination of surface freight railroad tracks. All the photographs show the Westside of Manhattan. They show myriad freight cars, and horse and wagon teams to unload them, along Hudson Street and West Street with cross streets in the West 30s block, as well as at Pier 11. The plates, as each set of two are referred to, are numbered 3, 4, 5, and 6 and were probably part of an original set. The photographs were taken by a commercial photographer, Emil H. Stopff, whose studio was on lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Arranged numerically.

Extent

0.1 cubic feet (8 photographs)

Dates

circa 1900



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