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Tugboat with car floats. Photo: New York State Archives NY Harbor ca 1897-1901 showing Brooklyn industrial waterfront, car floats & covered barge. Photo: Edwin Levick, courtesy of the Levick Collection, The Mariners’ Museum & ParkCar float w/ train & locomotive. Photo: Percy Loomis Sperr, David Keller ArchiveNY Central Barge “Crugers,” operated between 1943-1956. Photo: Thomas Flagg CollectionCar float passing lower Manhattan. Photo: Steve Meyers, David Keller Archive“Lower Manhattan,” Louis Lozowick, 1936. Image: Smithsonian InstitutionBest place to learn about the Lighterage Era: Waterfront Museum, in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Photo: David SharpsThe Waterfront Museum, Lehigh Valley No. 79, pushed by tug Frances, passes Hoboken Terminal on the way to dry dock upstate, June 25, 2015