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Includes photos related to Contracts #3 and #4: river shaft caissons in dry dock at Staten Island Shipbuilding Co., launching of caissons, full size section of tunnel with graphic illustration, rendering of drawing of operation of sinking the caisson, aerial of New York tunnel site made by Fairchild Aerial Camera Corp.

Includes photos of drawing of tunnel's concrete lining at different steps in placing and of models of the New Jersey approach to the tunnel from different angles.

Includes Contract #5 inspection party in North Tunnel at Spring St., New York Telephone Co. cables at Canal & Hudson streets, first truck to enter North Tunnel; unidentified portions of tunnel; inspection party of New Jersey commissioners and guests.

Includes photos related to Contract #1, including street and sidewalk views of Canal Street, Canal Street Park, work at Canal and West streets, Canal Street caisson and shaft, Spring Street caisson and shaft.

Includes photos related to Contract #3, including Canal Street shaft and shield, street views of Canal Street, frame for power house, site of accident involving miners helper James Hunt, Spring Street shaft and shield, conditions contributing to injury to Inspector Blakeslee, sandhogs (i.e., workers) gathering and going into a man-lock, vitiated air ducts, tunnel views, steel forms, inspection party in North Tunnel west of Spring Street shaft, turbines.

Includes photos related to Contract #3, including sewage treatment plant excavation, South Tunnel shield, men in work chamber of the river shaft caisson, protection concrete of bottom of caisson, men standing on tunnel shield, South Tunnel after flooding of 3 April 1924.

Includes photos related to Contract #13, including construction of river ventilation building.

Includes photos related to Contract #4, including North Tunnel closure ring, three men tightening a tunnel bolt, concreting methods, steel pile segments. Also view of the Huson River Day Line steamer "Washington Irving" sinking after being rammed by a Standard Oil tanker on 1 June 1926.

Includes photos from the New Jersey side of the work, related to Contract #4, including pilings, gantry, storage, tunnel views, shields, construction details, cross-passage between shafts, constructing inverts, concreting arch form, new Erie Pier 9.

Includes a 1919 photo of a land boring in New Jersey Erie railroad yard and undated (1919?) groundbreaking. Includes photos from the New Jersey side of the work, related to Contract #4, including land shaft caissons (interior and exteriors), working chamber of shaft, shields, excavation and timbering for air duct. Includes photos from the New Jersey side of the work, related to Contract #6, including caissons at land ventilating building, steel sewers in Jersey City, and new Erie Pier 9.

Includes aerial of proposed New Jersey exit (1920), land level view of N.J. exit site (1921), Contract #6 tunnel progress in Jersey City (1925), Union Terminal Cold Storage Plant in Jersey City (1920), Contract #4 air supply pipes in Jersey City (1922), and preparation for moving of Salvation Army building from Jersey City exit plaza (1926).

Includes photos taken on 6 September 1920 at an unidentified location, possibly Jersey City or Hoboken, and photos taken on 14 September 1920 of Canal Street Park.

Includes tunnel interior, partially tiled, with rail track; a tugboat pulling a caisson into the river; ducts and other equipment at Urbana, Illinois (1922); Canal Street shaft taken by Clyde Iron Works Sales Co. (1923); turbines, buildings, and site view at Canal and West streets.

Includes three photos removed from their frames, identified on the backing of the frames as images of Chief Engineer Clifford Holland.

Includes photographs of individuals and groups of people, including E.M. Barradale, gentlemen at a signing event (25 September 1919), inspection party(?) at tunnel entrance, dinner event, group (28 October 1939), group at signing of S-25 Equalization Bill (11 April 1946).

Includes digital images included by the donor.

Includes two oversize images: photograph of unidentified group of gentlemen in posed portrait and print of the plaque commemorating the opening of the tunnel.

Includes a typed manuscript form of the report, which includes the Report of the Chief Engineer as Appendix B. Includes loose reports found with the report, including portions of an "Analysis of Cast-Iron Tunnel Sections."

Includes a 1922 memo from Clifford Holland found with the report with the subject "Plaza Arrangement: Jersey City."

This is a typed, manuscript version of the report.