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Lithograph and accompanying letter (18 August 1874) of Jerome Wenmaekers explaining plans for a proposed system of quays, docks, railway, and vehicular tunnels running underneath the Hudson River and East River in New York. Titled by Wenmaekers "Preliminary project: The future of New York through the system of submarine building invented by Jerome Wenmaekers." less

George Sears Greene (1801-1899) was a Union officer in the Civil War, a founder of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects, and was responsible for numerous railroads and aqueduct construction projects. These papers relate to a proposed tunnel "for carriage and footways" that would have extended from Manhattan's 7th Avenue under the Harlem River to Morrisania, the Bronx less