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(NYC FERRY TERMINAL) Post-war album entitled "St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island," with more than 110 photographs relating to ferry sites in downtown Brooklyn, lower Manhattan and the west side. With scenes of maritime activity along the East and Hudson Rivers, derricks and oversized machinery used in the demolition of old sites and construction of new ones. Silver prints, 7 1/2x9 inches (19.1x22.9 cm.), each print is linen backed and with a caption and date in the negative; a few with the hand stamp of Weitzman's Photo Shop, Staten Island, NY, on verso. Oblong 4to, leatherette, multi-ring binder. 1947-1948
The bygone era of ferry travel, once a preferred mode of transportation for Brooklynites and Staten Islanders to lower Manhattan, was already diminishing in the 1940s. The album chronicles this transition as ferry terminals were being demolished or repaired along the East and Hudson Rivers.
