Wikimedia Commons

File:The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York (1897) (14578369888) (cropped).jpg

Original file ‎(2,380 × 1,878 pixels, file size: 732 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary edit

Description
English:

Identifier: greatnorthsideor00durs (find matches)
Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
it is a vast land-locked basin larger in extent than any other body of waterso well adapted to a similar purpose. The great advantagesthat are presented along this water-front for manufacturingestablishments on a large scale are already being understoodand plans are on foot looking to an early occupation of favor-able sites for this purpose. The active competition in all in-dustrial pursuits has made it a matter of absolute necessity,that every advantage of natural and artificial facilities shouldbe availed of in the interest of economy, as everything bywhich time and labor can be saved must be carefully consid-ered in order to meet the sharp lines that exist in all thedepartments of industry. Here are the freight terminals of two great trunk lines thatembrace with their connections the entire continent. Fromtheir very doors the manufacturers may ship their productsthat will be conveyed in unbroken bulk by rail or steamer toevery part of the United States, Mexico, Canada, and to every
Text Appearing After Image:
The Great North Side. 71 seaport in the world, and in return secure the raw material atthe lowest rates from any available source. A line of steamersis now negotiating for piers, and other trunk lines of railroadsare seeking terminals at this point. The coming year will seea commercial revolution in this part of the City if the plansnow being prepared are carried out. RAILWAY FACILITIES.

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14578369888/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Other versions
image extraction process
This file has been extracted from another file
: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York (1897) (14578369888).jpg
original file
Flickr tags
InfoField
Flickr posted date
InfoField
28 July 2014


Licensing edit

This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current09:16, 22 May 2019Thumbnail for version as of 09:16, 22 May 20192,380 × 1,878 (732 KB)Blue Elf (talk | contribs)File:The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York (1897) (14578369888).jpg cropped 51 % vertically using CropTool with lossless mode.

You cannot overwrite this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_Great_north_side,_or,_Borough_of_the_Bronx,_New_York_(1897)_(14578369888)_(cropped).jpg&oldid=522882440"