Box SC Photo 0005.04

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Fordham Rd. Sta – 3rd & Park Av. 1907 E. (104) in negative lower right corner, sepia photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on linen (Bricked roadway with double set of tracks in foreground, station building at right, five steel guard rails separating roadway into lanes, elevated roadway crosses center of photo, bare trees behind the elevated, above station building is a building with two cupolas on roof line)

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B(oston) Post Road 1908 vicinity 222 st. (111) in negative lower right corner, sepia photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on linen (Bucolic scene, dirt road across center of photo with wagon at left among bare trees and weedy land, dirt road passes over a rough stone double culvert with shallow water)

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W. 227 St. Trestle over RR. Tracks – W. of Bdwy. 1/22/1908, 25 in circle all information written in ink on tab attached to linen, (117) in negative lower right corner, sepia photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on linen (Dirt roadway and pedestrian sidewalk beneath a hill separated from railroad tracks by a solid wooden fence, wooden stairway goes from roadway level up to trestle which leads to some wooden clapboard houses on hillside, laundry on line between foremost houses)

Scope and Contents Bdwy Bridge – (225 St) Marblehill cut & building of elevated portion of Bdwy Subway 1/22/1908, 23 in circle all information handwritten in ink on tab attached to linen, (118) in negative lower right corner, sepia photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on linen (Steel through bridge over river, center span supported on pier protected by spur dike, other two piers are masonry, lower right corner shows stone rubble embankment along river, pinholes on sides of photo, the Marble Hill cut made to make...

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Washington Hts Bridge (Harlem R.) 1908 written in ink on photo, Washington Hts. Bridge over Harlem R. 1908 Looking West from Bronx written in ink on tab attached to linen backing, (123) in lower right corner, sepia photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on linen (Double steel arch bridge between many arched masonry abutments, in foreground is bricked roadway separated by bare tree lined grassy areas, buildings in far distance)

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Highbridge and tower looking West from Bronx – 1908 written in ink on tab attached to linen backing, (124) in lower right corner, sepia photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on linen (15 masonry high arched bridge crossing river, bridge completed 1848 and earliest bridge crossing from Manhattan to Bronx and roadway from a terraced esplanade in foreground to a distance hill with tower on the top)

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(4)B-of-H-175-St-Concourse 9-26-1909, sepia photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on linen (Construction of a barrel arch with wooden formwork and rough cut rectangular stone being placed over the arch, two hoists on top of arch two houses on a hillside above pile of rocks, pinholes in corners

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(1)B.of-H-Highbridge 9-26-1907 on photo, Highbridge Station 1907 written on linen backing, sepia photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on linen (Construction site shows many piles driven into river edge, a right of photo many railroad tracks passing beneath a ten arch masonry bridge, towers carrying lines along railroad tracks)

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175 st Underpass 1907 (5)B-of-H-175 St. Concourse 9-26-1907, sepia photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on linen (Center of photo is large flattened masonry arch supported by wooden formwork, rough weedy dirt area in foreground, at left stands a man on boulders, pinholes in corners)

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At Kingsbridge Road underpass West Side (typed on label on back of photo) (6)B-of-H—Kingsbridge Road 3-4-1908 (Wooden formwork in rocky ground in center of photo, tree line of bare trees and telegraph poles, group of buildings in background, pinholes in corners)