# Sorting refuse at incinerating plant, New York City -

Sorting refuse at incinerating plant, New York City /

Summary

The subject is a group of about thirty men and boys who are sorting combustible refuse, mostly paper, and stuffing it into large sacks. In the background a man in a hat with an emblem on it can be seen unloading trash from a large wagon. Location may be the New York City Sanitation Department's East 17th Street facility, or possibly the incinerator at West 47th Street on the Hudson River.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1903
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: unknown
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sorting_refuse_at_incinerating_plant,_New_York_City_-.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: unknown
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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