[Joralemon Street with construction debris and hoses]

[Joralemon Street with construction debris and hoses]
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Title: [Joralemon Street with construction debris and hoses]
Description:

Lengthwise view of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road and sidewalk reconstruction; three workers at left standing next to wooden barrier and looking into camera; horse and carriage opposite them; construction debris before workers, including two hoses snaking from center to lower left; brownstones at right, brick row houses at left. Typed caption on verso: "View of S.E. Shaft just after removal of head frame from S.W. shaft. Camera near S.W. corner of Joralemon and Henry Sts., looking W."

Date: 1905
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
On recto: date inscribed: 5.25.1905.
Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
Collection: Subway Construction
Subject: Streets
Streets
Sidewalks
Horse-drawn vehicles
Construction workers
Brownstone buildings
Row houses
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Photographic prints.
Cyanotypes.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: SUB 0037