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Destruction of the Railroad. (Escolta) Destuccion. Lampacitos.

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

  • Tom Jutte said:
    Very nice capture!

Pier, Jersey City after munitions explosion (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Art Siegel said:
    This is apparently a view of some of the damage from the Black Tom munitions explosion of July 30, 1916, eventually held to be an act of German sabotage.
    A very similar photo is used with the following caption in a blog entry on Black Tom:
    "This view shows the wreckage of buildings on the pier at Black Tom Island, part of Jersey City, N.J., following the explosion of a munition plant set off by German saboteurs, July 1916. The pier is opposite the Statue of Liberty in the New York Harbor. (AP Photo)"
    cryptome.org/eyeball/black-tom/black-eyeball.htm

    See also Recovered shells (LOC)Diving at Black Tom (LOC)Raising Shells, Black Tom (LOC)Sorting shells at Black Tom (LOC)
  • Richard Norton said:
    The Black Tom explosion on July 30, 1916, in Jersey City, New Jersey, was an act of sabotage by German agents to destroy American-made munitions that were to be supplied to the Allies in World War I. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Ryan (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks to both of you for this information. We'll make sure that some of it gets into each record the next time we update.
  • perfgeek said:
    Seems those are Hudson River barges in the foreground. From some searching around, part of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh_Valley_Railroad . These folks www.waterfrontmuseum.org/home seem to have one as the home for their museum.

Looking across R.R. bridge into Canada from Vanceboro, Me. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Mark in NOVA said:
    This is the bridge that Werner Horn tried to blow up in 1915. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Horn
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Werner Van Horn, an alleged German army reservist, arrived by train in Vanceboro, Maine (population 147 at the 2000 census) on a Saturday night from New York, and put up at a local hotel. He had intended to escape into Canada after blowing up the international railroad bridge the following night, but the February night was so cold (28° below zero F) (–33° C) that one of his hands and one foot were badly frozen, and his clothing was encrusted with ice. So he went back to the hotel in Vanceboro, He was arrested the following morning at 7:00am by a Deputy sheriff and a Maine Central Railroad officer. It seems the German was the only stranger in Vanceboro. — The New York Times  
  • swanq said:
    Also see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanceboro_international_bridge_bombing The bridge appears to have been replaced. See www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=298717&nseq=5