[Joralemon Street with derrick and boom]

[Joralemon Street with derrick and boom]
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Title: [Joralemon Street with derrick and boom]
Description:

Lengthwise view of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road reconstruction; large wooden derrick built over excavation at right; boom rising diagonally over street at left; workers and work cart next to derrick; beginning of intersection in right foreground. Typed caption on verso: "General view of E. shafts near S.W. Cor. Garden Pl. and Joralemon Sts. looking E."

Date: 1905
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
On recto: date inscribed: 5.22.1905.
Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
Collection: Subway Construction
Subject: Streets
Streets
Cranes, derricks, etc
Construction workers
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 0039