Lifting a Wagon from a New York Foundation (1903)

The scene is an excavation pit at an unidentified New York City construction site A crew of six men can be seen shoveling dirt into a fourwheeled wooden cart Then a full cart is slowly lifted out of the pit to street level by a steampowered crane These carts are similar in design to those shown dumping rubble at the end of the film New York City Dumping Wharf Advertisements and campaign posters can be seen on the exposed wall of the building in the background