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New York City dumping wharf, Thomas A. Edison, Inc

Label
New York City dumping wharf, Thomas A. Edison, Inc
Language
eng
Characteristic
motion picture
Main title
New York City dumping wharf
Medium
electronic resource
Oclc number
701797919
Responsibility statement
Thomas A. Edison, Inc
Runtime
1
Series statement
New York at the turn of the centuryAmerican history in video
Summary
The film shows a wharf where a barge is being loaded with trash from two-wheeled, horse-drawn wagons. The trash is dumped off the edge of the pier onto the barge, where men with shovels are spreading the piles of debris. The camera pans left to the next barge, where four-wheeled carts are shown dumping excavation rubble. Probably filmed on the East River, this is one of several New York City Sanitation Department dumping wharves in operation at the time
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
NYC dumping wharf
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