| Panorama of Riker's Island, NY | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1152 |
| Catalog #: | 493283 | |
| Clip Number: | 493283-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | H32031 | |
| Timecode: | 00:23:23 - 00:25:46 | |
| Location: | New York, NY, USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1903 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CONSTRUCTION: Dams & Levees CONSTRUCTION: Equipment LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York TRANSPORTATION/BOATS & SHIPS: Views from boat or ship, POV | |
| Description: | Panorama of Riker's Island, NY View from a boat going around Riker's Island, NY. Includes scenes of heavy equipment at work, including pile drivers constructing the seawall and steam shovels unloading rubbish from barges. On one of the steam shovels, a sign reading "Water Front Improvement Co., 220 Broadway, New York" . Near the end of the film, a narrow-gauge steam engine with five open cars loaded with landfill, comes into view Note: Riker's Island was the site of a massive New York City landfill operation at the time of the filming; originally 87 acres, by 1939 the size of the island had increased to 400. Later the island became the site of a New York City penitentiary. | |
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