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REDUCTION GEARS FROM WEST END - Creque Marine Railway, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, VI
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Lowe, Jet, creator
Title
REDUCTION GEARS FROM WEST END - Creque Marine Railway, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, VI
Description
St Thomas Marine Railway Company; Rothschild, L; Recht, W; Creque, Henry O; Harley, Alfonz; Creque, Herman O; Creque, Henry O, Jr; Morris, Scott, transmitter; DeBoer, Ruth, transmitter; Virgin Islands Planning Office, sponsor; Delony, Eric, project manager
Depicted place Virgin Islands (US); St. Thomas; Charlotte Amalie
Date 1985
date QS:P571,+1985-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER VI,3-HASI,1-5
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Containing a well-preserved Bolton beam engine form the 1840s, this marine railway is one of the oldest surviving facilities of its kind in the Western Hamisphere.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3
  • Survey number: HAER VI-1
  • Building/structure dates: 1840- 1843 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1911 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/vi0026.photos.167063p
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