Title: | Camera near n.w. corner Joralemon & Henry Sts., Bkn., looking west |
Description: | Lengthwise view from right of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road and sidewalk reconstruction; wooden derrick and construction shed at left; second, smaller shed at right; worker standing on horse-drawn cart with sandbags in narrow passage between sheds; woman (back to camera) walking down sidewalk at right; second worker in profile standing next to horse-drawn cart; stacks of pipes and metal girders in right foreground; heaps of snow, dirt, and construction debris at right and left. Typed caption on verso: "Camera near n.w. corner Joralemon & Henry Sts., Bkn., looking west, showing general view about shafts #1 & 2." |
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: 3.14.1905. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners." |
Collection: | Subway Construction [4]
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Subject: |
Streets [5] Streets [5] Cranes, derricks, etc [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 0048 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/07a1ff2f91313edf31e2cfe9981bb2c6&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/c/Cranes, derricks, etc
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Row houses