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- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
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Manhattan Bridge: 1910
New York circa 1910. "Manhattan Bridge and East River from Brooklyn." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Dumbo
That whole area along the river in Dumbo is a park now. Great place to skip stones on the river.
The King of Coal
Just when you think your coal pier is of a workable size along comes good 'ol John Schmadeke and ups the ante, is twice as big and has the sign to prove it.
Interesting contrast
Three years earlier, when the bridge was still being built, Catharine Ferry was still operating and the Carsten Coal Company occupied the spot where now John F. Schmadeke sells "coal for tugs":
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