Ephemera and Photos

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Bethlehem Steel workers strike, 6 June 1947, Hoboken, NJ.

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These latest bits of visual information are a grab bag to catch up.

Bethlehem Steel workers strike (reverse), 6 June 1947, Hoboken, NJ.

Erie bad order card

Erie bad order card (reverse)

Erie Railroad NY Division & Side Lines schematic (no date)

A seat card from 1956 announcing the change of stations to the Lackawanna's Hoboken Terminal. The two railroads would merge four years later.

Inside a Seatrain Lines ship showing the multiple levels of storage in this stage of the evolution to containerized shipping.

A cut away view of the operation that was published in Popular Mechanics Magazine (http://books.google.com/books?id=0N4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA122#v=onepage&q&f=true). this would be amazing to model!