05 December 2008

Army Corps of Engineers Cause Largest Manmade Blast Before Hiroshima, In New York City, 1885



Dahlstrom Collection
Photographer Mr. Albee and wife setting up equipment at the foot of 88th St. in preparation for shooting the Flood Rock reef explosion; the Army Corps of Engineers are blowing it up because it is a navigation hazard (the explosion is reputed to be the largest prior to the atomic bomb)
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: October 10, 1885
Photographer: Wallace G. Levison
Size: 1280 x 1011 pixels (17.8 x 14.0 inches)
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