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The Lighterage Era

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Tugboat with car floats. Photo: New York State Archives, Education Dept. Division of Visual Instruction. Instructional lantern slides, 1911-1925, A3045-78, Lantern slide DnNA53
Tugboat with car floats. Photo: New York State Archives
New York Harbor, ca 1897-1901, showing the Brooklyn industrial waterfront and car floats, including a covered barge. Photo: The Mariners' Museum and Park, Newport News, Virginia
NY Harbor ca 1897-1901 showing Brooklyn industrial waterfront, car floats & covered barge. Photo: Edwin Levick, courtesy of the Levick Collection, The Mariners’ Museum & Park
Car float with locomotive included. Photo: Percy Loomis Sperr, David Keller Archive
Car float w/ train & locomotive. Photo: Percy Loomis Sperr, David Keller Archive
New York Central Barge
NY Central Barge “Crugers,” operated between 1943-1956. Photo: Thomas Flagg Collection
Car float, part of the lighterage system, passing lower Manhattan. Photo: Steve Meyers, David Keller Archive
Car float passing lower Manhattan. Photo: Steve Meyers, David Keller Archive
“Lower Manhattan,” Louis Lozowick, 1936. Image: Smithsonian Institution
The Waterfront Museum, aboard the Lehigh Valley No. 79 in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Photo: David Sharps
Best place to learn about the Lighterage Era: Waterfront Museum, in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Photo: David Sharps
The Waterfront Museum, Lehigh Valley No. 79, pushed by tug Frances, passes the Hoboken Terminal on the way to dry dock upstate, June 25, 2015. Photo: Annik LaFarge, author of On the High Line
The Waterfront Museum, Lehigh Valley No. 79, pushed by tug Frances, passes Hoboken Terminal on the way to dry dock upstate, June 25, 2015