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Map of Black Tom Island, Jersey City, New Jersey : showing area damaged by explosion and fire,

July 30th 1916

Sanborn Map Company

Survey map of ammunition storage facilities, industrial plants, warehouses, railroad tracks, wharves, and piers damaged by a German sabotage operation

during World War I.

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Oriented with north toward the upper right.

"Note: This territory also covered by sheets 84, 85, 86 & 89 of Hudson County, vol. 9."

Watermark: Permalife, 25% cotton content.

Includes text, notes, and inset of northern portion

of the damaged area.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918
fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Black Tom Explosion NJ

July 1916

NARA165-ww-158A-032

Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG:165; Enemy Activities.

fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Firemen fighting fires of ruined dock, Black Tom NJ

1916

NARA 165-ww-158A-029

Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG:165; Enemy Activities.

fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Amunition Explosion, Black Tom, NJ

1916

NARA165-ww-158A-012

Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG:165; Enemy Activities.

fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Debris Lehigh Valley pier, 5 lives lost, $25 M damage,

July 30, 1916

NARA165-ww-158A-005

Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG:165; Enemy Activities.

fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Lehigh Valley docks, Black Tom Explosion

1916

NARA165-ww-158A-007

Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG:165; Enemy Activities.

fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Diving at Black Tom

Photograph shows diver who is recovering shells after an explosion set off by German saboteurs

on July 30, 1916, on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor near Liberty Island.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

1916

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Raising Shells, Black Tom

Photograph shows shells recovered by divers near Jersey City after an explosion set off

by German saboteurs on July 30, 1916, on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor near Liberty Island.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

1916

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Rescued shells, Jersey City

Photograph shows the aftermath of the Black Tom munitions explosion of July 30, 1916,

on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor near Liberty Island.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Bain News Service, publisher

1916

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Sorting shells at Black Tom

Photograph shows men sorting shells recovered by divers near Jersey City

after an explosion set off by German saboteurs on July 30, 1916,

on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor near Liberty Island.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

1916

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Recovered shells

Photograph shows shells recovered by divers near Jersey City after an explosion set off

by German saboteurs on July 30, 1916, on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor near Liberty Island.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

1916

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Pier, Jersey City after munitions explosion

Photograph shows damaged freight cars owned by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co.

at the Black Tom munitions depot after an explosion set off by German saboteurs on July 30, 1916, on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor near Liberty Island.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

1916

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

fire bomb black tom spy spying sabotage usa german ww1 guerre 1914 1918

Fire Bomb prisoners

Photograph shows men involved in a plot to bomb munitions ships supplying Europe from the U.S.

(Source: New York Times, April 29, 1916 and Flickr Commons project, 2014)

1916 April

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C British Western Front

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Hayward Reed

Photograph shows Hayward Reed, a German fruit grower, who was detained on his trip to Germany from the U.S. by the British who suspected that he was a German spy, in January 1917.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Capt. Franz von Papen departing

Photograph shows German nobleman Franz von Papen (1879-1969)

who was expelled from the United States in December 1915

for alleged complicity in the planning of sabotage.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

1915 Dec. 22

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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