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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.
NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 20May1903; H32030.
Duration: 1:21 at 15 fps.
Camera, James Blair Smith.
Photographed April 28, 1903.
Received: 5/20/03; paper pos; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.
Received: 1989/90 from UCLA; dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.
Received: 1991 from LC lab; ref print; preservation; Paper Print Collection.
SUBJECTS
Refuse and refuse disposal--New York (State)--New York.
Sanitation workers--New York (State)--New York.
Wharves--New York (State)--New York.
Rivers--New York (State)--New York.
Piers--New York (State)--New York.
Barges--New York (State)--New York.
Waterfronts--New York (State)--New York.
Horse-drawn vehicles--New York (State)--New York.
Actuality--Short.
RELATED NAMES
Smith, James Blair, camera.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
MEDIUM
1 roll (100 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
CALL NUMBER
LC 1735 (paper pos)
FEB 9441 (ref print)
FPE 5372 (dupe neg)
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
lcmp002 m2a44308 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/lcmp002.m2a44308
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