Blowing up Flood Rock, 1885. Artist: Anon

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Blowing up Flood Rock, 1885. Workers in underground galleries putting cartridges of dynamite into position in preparation for the blowing up Flood Rock, part of the Hell Gate Rocks complex which prevented large vessels reaching New York Harbour, and presented a hazard to smaller ones. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 1885).

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