Weehawken Elevator (LOC)

    Bain News Service,, publisher.

    Weehawken Elevator

    [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

    1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

    Notes:
     Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
    Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

    Format: Glass negatives.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

    Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19547

    Call Number: LC-B2- 3547-10

    Comments and faves

    1. Retired at last (3 weeks ago | reply)

      It's a grain elevator, there's another image here. www.weehawkenhistory.org/view_item.php?id=881 94&back=...

    2. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (3 weeks ago | reply)

      Weehawken grain elevator explosion

      Grain Elevator Blown Up‎.
      The Baltimore Sun - July 16, 1915
      New York, July 15. An explosion today wrecked a big grain elevator in Weehawken. across the Hudson river from New York, and severely injured a half dozen ...

    3. pbhome (3 weeks ago | reply)

      Thanks Richard. That explains the missing wall.

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    5. swanq (3 weeks ago | reply)

      NYT of October 25, 1915
      query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB081 0FA395D16738...
      indicates that there were arrests (of Robert Fay and Walter Scholz) made in relation to the explosion,
      "BOMB FACTORY IN HIS ROOM; Prisoner, an Officer in the Kaiser's Army, Carried Map of Harbor. MECHANIC AID ALSO TAKEN Kept High-Power Automobile and Motor Boat, Always Ready for Fast Service. A NEW INFERNAL MACHINE Telescope Device Found in Lodgings, with Supply of Most Powerful Explosive."

    6. swanq (3 weeks ago | reply)

      The Literary Digest, Volume 51
      books.google.com/books?id=zA4xAQAAMAAJ&pg =PA993&l...
      has more on the suspected bomb plots.

      Information Annual
      books.google.com/books?id=g8dPAAAAMAAJ&pg =PA226&l...
      indicates that Fay and Scholz (plus some others) were found guilty and sentenced to prison in Atlanta.

      Note: searches on "Robert Fay Walter Scholz" yield lots of hits in newspapers and digitized volumes.

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      pbhome added this photo to his favorites. (3 weeks ago)

    8. pbhome (3 weeks ago | reply)

      Wow. Thanks for the research. In will look them up.

    9. Barbara (LOC P&P) (2 weeks ago | reply)

      Thanks, everyone, for figuring out the location of the photo and the circumstances. Fascinating! We'll add information to the description when we next update.

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