Box SC Photo 0005.02

Scope and Contents White Plains Road Paving Experiment Standard Oil Penetration before Applying Paint Coat Oct 21st 1910, 349, black and white photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on 8”x 9 ½” gray paper with Burke Ave inked in lower right corner (Roadway with curb on right side and double tracks with double rows of telegraph poles, on right side is row of 14 barrels with two standing men and trees with a few leaves and row of houses, in center of photo is a blurred image, at left in middle is a small vehicle and some...

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No caption, no date, slightly sepia black and white photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” (Wooden planked roadway centered in a large leveled area to the right of tracks, hoists by a rock pile in center of photo, pile of eight large pipes in front of a little wooden bridge over a gully at the right side of photo, at left side of photo is a group of two-story houses, several bare trees)

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Kingsbridge Ave. Op. 232nd Str. Showing Position of Water Main P.S.7, July 12th. 1910. Black and white photo 7 ½ x 9 ½” (Rough roadway cut in front of a four-story brick apartment building which has a stone square portico at entrance, at building side is a steep gabled building (maybe a barn) a iron fence separates the rubble piles of the roadway from the building, posted sign 37 N.Y.C. Co. 12 Post No Bills, in distance is washing on line beneath telegraph poles)

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Railroad Crossing, looking South on Blondell Ave. Oct. 23rd 1907, 70, black and white photo 7 ½” x 9 ½” mounted on black paper (Deep pit with wooden formwork grid and reinforcing rods, three wooden ladders going to surface above pit, group of men leading on wooden railing overlooking the pit, three visible buildings near railing, one with sign …Beer, back of photo has typed label N.Y. N.H. and H.R.R. Station – Westchester Station, Blondell Avenue, 1907)

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Truxton Street Outlet Sewer Station 0+75 looking Northwest August 20, 1908, 93, P232 in upper right corner, black and white photo 7½”x 9½” (Man in white coat wearing straw hat standing in center of rough weedy field, building in distance with sign PEASE PIANO on roof, also in distance a derrick and piles of lumber next to a rail track)

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Standard Oil Co’s Experiments Grand Boul. & Concourse & 173rd St. Dec. 5th 1914 626, black and white photo 7 ½” x 9 ½” (Broad smooth roadway in two-thirds of photo, at the right is light pole, at left is row of spindly bare trees in front of masonry balustrade with a scruffy rocky hill in distance)

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Same as previous (Sloping lawn with slender tall trees heavily foliaged, low brick wall separates lawn from sidewalk and street, deep among trees appears to be a house)

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Ft. Schuyler Rd Aug. 23-18, black and white photo 7 ¾”x 9 ½” lower right corner missing ( Half of photo is water with dam across the upper middle of photo – dam has weir openings, barge at left with houses – one has striped awning, another has sign painted on side PAINT SUPPLIES above the dam which carries a roadway, on roadway is an open cab “Model T” type auto approaching a derrick and two men, several telegraph poles)

Scope and Contents Mosholu Pky & Jerome Ave. (South) located upper left of photo, Jerome Ave Bridge Sept 23, 1911 located lower right of photo, black and white photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” (Across center of photo is three arched bridge – large center arch with two smaller arches on either side framed by buttresses, in foreground is grassy area with a light pole and dirt roadway, beneath center arch some construction beneath tree line, back of photo handwritten in ink Jerome Ave & Mosholu Pky 1911 West to East,...

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Westchester Av. Hoo Av 1914 686, black and white photo 7 ¼”x 9 ½” (broad roadway with large stone curb, fire hydrant and manhole cover at right side of photo, across upper photo is elevated railroad supported by steel columns, left side two-story brick building, buildings in background)