Items

• Photo of schoolchildren walking up the top of the Shippen Street Stairs in 1959

  6" x 8.5" black and white glossy photo of a class of school children walking up the top portion of the Shippen Street stairs in October, 1959. Visible behind them is Hackensack Plank Road, still clad in cobblestones. Beyond is the peeked roof the old town hall at 309 Park Avenue, the waterfront, concrete helix leading to the Lincoln Tunnel, the Hudson River and the skyline of Manhattan, with the Empire State Building at center. On reverse is the photo credit line (UPI) and caption.
• Hackensack Plank Road

  Hackensack Plank Road from Hudson Avenue to Ridgley Place. Caption reads: Number cars parked - 19 Out of town - 9
• Hackensack Plank Road

  8" x 10" black and white photograph of Hackensack Plank Road looking east from Palisade Avenue to Hudson Avenue. Caption reads: Cars parked - 19 Out of town - 11
• Pleasant Avenue looking north from intersection of Hackensack Plank Road

  8" x 10" black and white photograph of Pleasant Avenue, north from Hackensack Plank Road. Note the cobblestoned street. Caption reads: Number of parked cars - 19 Out of town - 11 Some of which owned by employees of local industries
• Toll Gate on Hackensack Plank Road

  Undated photograph (circa early 1920s) of a toll gate on Hackensack Plank Road, one of the oldest roads in the County, laid out 1718. Also know as the Hackensack or Bergen Turnpike, it was built with a surface of plank decking from Hoboken up through Weehawken, North Bergen and on to Hackensack. It became a toll road in 1804. From the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.
• Photograph - Shades - foot of Hackensack Plank Road

  Black and white photograph at the bottom of the steps, circa 19030s. From the collection of Weehawken resident Bobby Reed.
• Photograph - Shades - Hackensack Plank Road

  Black and white photo, circa 1930s, of house against the Palisades, with a full load of laundry hanging, near the foot of Hackensack Plank Road. Note the '100 Steps' in the background. Photograph from the collection of Weehawken resident Bobby Reed.
• Photograph - Shippen Street and Hackensack Plank Road

  Black and white photograph of the end of the Shippen Street horseshoe and Hackensack Plank Road, looking south (circa 1930s). From the collection of Weehawken resident Bobby Reed.