Title: | [Road work near Borough Hall] |
Description: | Intersection in Brooklyn Heights showing wooden barrier around road work site; several men standing around barrier and looking down into pit; Borough Hall with clock tower at left; former courthouse building (since destroyed) with elaborate mansard roof in right background; sign for undertaker in storefront at right; elevated rail tracks, trolley car, and horse and carriage in background. Inscription on verso: "Camera in roadway at sts. 112 + 70 looking east showing obstructions at N.W. & S.W. corners of Court & Joralemon Sts." |
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] Municipal buildings [6] Lost architecture [7] |
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 0007 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/5af0c53656eb65da54aff308c09f9d57&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/m/Municipal buildings
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Lost architecture