| Blackwell's Island (w/ NY's penal & charity institutions) | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1152 |
| Catalog #: | 493257 | |
| Clip Number: | 493257-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | H32034 | |
| Timecode: | 01:42:15 - 01:44:51 | |
| Location: | New York, NY, USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1903 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Asylums BUILDINGS: Government, Misc BUILDINGS: Lighthouses HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Psychiatry / Mental Illness LAW: Enforcement, Prisons LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York TRANSPORTATION/BOATS & SHIPS: Views from boat or ship, POV | |
| Description: | "Panorama of Blackwell's Island, N.Y." which was at the time the location for a whole bunch of places for warehousing "undesirables" of one sort or another - -criminals, the mentally ill, the indigent ill, poor people, etc. Film is shot from boat going along the eastern shore of Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island). Small lighthouse at north end of island ("Hallet's Cove"). New York City Lunatic Asylum, the Workhouse, the Almshouse. Piers for the Queensboro or 59th Street Bridge, which is not yet built; beside it the Almshouse Keeper's House. Past the Penitentiary and finally Charity Hospital. The film ends before reaching the southern tip of the island. | |
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