Box SC Photo 0005.01

Scope and Contents No caption, no date, sepia colored photo 4 ½”x7 ½” mounted on 8”x10” grey cardboard, scratch on image (bucolic scene, mist seems to be indicated rising in the distance – possibly the Hudson River because palisades are vaguely visible through mist, trees line the center ground of photo with a railing and a man leaning on railing, two people with bicycles and a horseless car and man also visible along railing, in foreground is a roughly indicated road lined with concrete curb and rubble, a...

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No caption, no date, sepia colored photo 4 ½”x7 ½” mounted on 8”x10” grey cardboard (at right foreground standing man with arms folded looking at camera standing by rough road edged with curb, rubble in roadway, trees in distance, horse drawn tankers, logs by a cut through stone embankment, left side of photo a wooden shack with masonry wall in front, in distance a fence line with trees behind)

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No caption, no date, sepia colored photo 4 ½”x7 ½” mounted on 8”x10” grey cardboard (appears to be a distance shot of previous photo, rough road indicated cut through embankment, trees and fence line across upper third of photo, at middle left is wooden shack with masonry wall, in center foreground a boy holding a white pole horizontally, group of four figures in mid distance)

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No caption, no date, sepia colored photo 4 ½”x6 ½” mounted on 8”x10” grey cardboard (faint image of steep embankment with houses on top, wooden staircase at upper right of photo)

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No caption, no date, sepia colored photo 4 ½”x6 ½” mounted on 8”x10” grey cardboard (road construction? In extreme foreground four men – two with bushy mustaches – timber piling and formwork, in distance men digging with shovels and wheelbarrows, extreme upper photo is tree line)

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No caption, no date, sepia photo 4 ½”x6 ¾” mounted on 8”x10” grey cardboard (two tall steel columns – bridge/viaduct foundation? – rough road cut, horse drawn wagon, barrels in distance, group of men working on embankment at left side of photo, Geo. C. Wheeler, 265 Broadway, N.Y. stamped on back)

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No caption, no date, yellowish sepia photo 4 ½”x6 ½” mounted on 8”x10” grey cardboard (possibly a close-up of area in 005-01-06, large concrete blocks in rows, man in overcoat and derby standing on one of the blocks, row of houses in extreme upper photo behind man)

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No c” grey cardboard (foreground a group of covered boats out of water, gaption, no date, sharp image sepia photo 4 ¾”x6 ½” mounted on 6 ½”x8 ½roup of people with a dog looking at one boat, at right side of photo thin trees on a hillside with telegraph pole and house with wooded steps going down toward boat area, handwritten in pencil on back of photo is Office Copy)

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Bennett Ave. Wall – West side, at Station #30+10ft. looking north from Station #28+25ft. hand inked on grey cardboard, sepia photo 4 ¾”x6 ½” mounted on 6 ½”x8 ½” grey cardboard, hand inked on the photo is Geo. C. Wheeler – Photo. #216 Jan. 18th, 1908, on back of photo in pencil is #216 Mr. Collins (image is of stone quarry? and loose rocks)

Scope and Contents 181st St., between Northern Ave. and Riverside Dr., looking west, Views taken by City Surveyor, 702 West 181st St., New York City, typewritten captions attached on 8”x9” grey cardboard, sharp sepia photo 4 ¾”x6 ¾” on back is handwritten in pencil: 53 during progress 1915 (street construction, street light with street sign Northern Ave., apartment buildings in mid ground, on right side building has sign: 5-6-7-8 Extra large rooms With butler’s pantry And 2 baths Rents very moderate, awnings...