A film titled 'Beginning of a skyscraper'. View of an excavation site in New York City. Workmen with pick-axe and shovels are seen digging. Carts drawn by pairs of horses can be seen. Smoke seen rising up.
A film titled 'A Perilous Proceeding'. A group of men climb on the cable and bucket of a large crane at the top of a building under construction. The men are lifted over the site and gradually lowered to the ground..
'Excavating for a New York Foundation '. A crew of laborers can be seen shoveling dirt into a four-wheeled wooden wagon. A full wagon is slowly lifted out of the pit to street level by a steam driven early design crane. Advertisements and campaign posters can be seen on the wall of the building in the background, including a large billboard for Cremo cigars. Location is West 29th Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway, looking east, in lower Midtown, Manhattan. Policeman talks with laborers at top of excavation, who are awaiting the filled wagon. They guide the wagon to an elevated landing on the perimeter above the excavation site.
A film titled 'New York City dumping wharf '. Trash is dumped off the edge of the wharf onto a barge from two-wheeled, horse-drawn wagons. Men with shovels spread the piles of debris on the barge. In the next barge four-wheeled carts seen dumping trash.
A film titled 'Sorting refuse at incinerating plant, New York City'. A group of men sort refuse and stuff it into large sacks. A man in a hat with an emblem unloads trash from a wagon.
A film titled 'Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y'. At the site of landfill operation heavy equipment is seen, including pile drivers and steam shovels. Shovels seen unloading trash from barges. A steam engine is seen.
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