Title

Steam Elevator at Weehawken

Description

Black and white photograph(1895) of the great elevator from the book, The Hackensack Water Company 1869 - 1969 by Adrian Leiby and Nancy Wichman. The caption reads: Steam elevator at Weehawken which lowered passenger-laden trolleys and other vehicles to 42nd Street Ferry at foot of Palisades, c 1895. In fact, the elevator lowered and raised passengers only, on large elevator cars, not trolleys. At the top, passengers transferred to trains which took them to Eldorado or on to the Guttenberg Racetrack. Published in 1969 by the Bergen County Historical Society.

Subject

WHC174

Date

1895

Type

PH

Identifier

WHC174

Coverage

Pershing Road at Boulevard East,Weehawken, NJ [40.7774849,-74.0137953]

Tag

Elevator

Railroad

Waterfront

Rights

This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the Weehawken Historical Commission.