Hudson River Tunnel/North River Tunnels
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Forgie, James
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content: James Forgie Papers
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content: James Forgie Papers / Series 2: Projects
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0986, Subseries 2.37
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This sub-series contains 8" x 10" black-and-white construction photographs documenting the work of tunneling and the installation of tunnel shields. The images depict  construction workers, especially "sandhogs," defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as, "a laborer who works in a caisson in driving underwater tunnels."