Title: | [Elevated rail tracks on Joralemon Street] |
Description: | Busy commercial street in Brooklyn Heights showing elevated rail tracks at left, with trolley cars, carriages, and carts under tracks; wooden barricades and construction debris on street in right foreground; former Municpal Building (since destroyed) with Corinthian columns and rusticated base at right; sign for trolley station on girder at left; pedestrians throughout. Inscription on verso: "Camera on north side of Joralemon St. near the contractor's office, looking S.E. & showing Fulton and Joralemon St. planking & obstructions." |
Date: | 1906 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
Title supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 7-20-1906. |
Collection: | Subway Construction [4]
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Subject: |
Streets [5] Streets [5] Sidewalks [6] Railroads, Elevated [7] Municipal buildings [8] Lost architecture [9] |
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 0006 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/ec4c96037a753aaae30e0dc7bf27928c&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+Heights+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Subway+Construction
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Streets
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Sidewalks
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Railroads, Elevated
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/m/Municipal buildings
[9] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Lost architecture