[Joralemon Street looking west]

[Joralemon Street looking west]
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Title: [Joralemon Street looking west]
Description:

Lengthwise view of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road and sidewalk reconstruction; workers and work horses gathered around wooden derrick at right; pile of dirt before derrick; worker (partly visible) bending over barrel near pile of dirt; intersection with Garden Place in left background; brownstones at right, brick rowhouses at left. Typed caption on verso: "View of surface of ground after completion of filling of S.E. shaft. Camera in street in line with east wall of 108 Joralemon St., looking west."

Date: 1905
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
On recto: date inscribed: 6.6.1905.
Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
Collection: Subway Construction
Subject: Streets
Streets
Sidewalks
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 0036