Trolley Cars Snowbound

Collection: This image is from the William J. Murray Photographs Collection and is depicted in a glass plate negative, negative, print and digital image.; Image is part of the William J. Murray Photographs Collection

Date: November 27, 1898; 1898-11-27 Material: unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver prints Dimension: 4 x 5 inches (glass plate negative); 3 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Creator: William J. Murray Identifier: aql:10598 wjm-000148 wjm-000148.tif

Description: Trolley cars are immobilized in drifted snow at the corner of Fulton Street (now Jamaica Avenue) and Washington Street (now 160th Street) the morning after the November 1898 blizzard. Photographer's notes indicate this was taken on Sunday morning, November 27, 1898.

Title : Trolley Cars Snowbound

Collection : aql:10431; vital:1

Creator : William J. Murray

Date : November 27, 1898; 1898-11-27

Summary/Description : Trolley cars are immobilized in drifted snow at the corner of Fulton Street (now Jamaica Avenue) and Washington Street (now 160th Street) the morning after the November 1898 blizzard. Photographer's notes indicate this was taken on Sunday morning, November 27, 1898.

Subject : Streets; Trolley cars; Snow

Relation : This image is from the William J. Murray Photographs Collection and is depicted in a glass plate negative, negative, print and digital image.; Image is part of the William J. Murray Photographs Collection

Rights : Public domain

Coverage : Fulton Street at Washington Street (now Jamaica Avenue at 160th Street), Jamaica, NY Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : glass plate negative; black and white negative; black and white print; digital image

Format : unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver prints; 4 x 5 inches (glass plate negative); 3 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:10598 wjm-000148 wjm-000148.tif