| Title: | Men taking up 6" air pipes on south side of Joralemon St. near No. 80 to #88 |
| Description: | Lengthwise view of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road reconstruction; two workers in left foreground (one blurred) using picks or bars to tear up surface, leaving a long narrow trench behind them; other workers with horses and carts in background; woman sitting on stoop at left with baby in carriage before her; other pedestrians along sidewalk in left background. Typed caption on verso: "Men taking up 6" air pipes on south side of Joralemon St. near No. 80 to #88. Camera in middle of street opposite east wall of #90 Joralemon St., looking west." |
| Date: | 1905 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| More Details: |
Title from typed caption on verso. On recto: date inscribed: 6-23-0[5]. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners." |
| Collection: | Subway Construction [4]
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| Subject: |
Streets [5] Streets [5] Construction workers [6] Row houses [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 0033 |