Title: | [Detached steam shovel car at subway excavation] |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (possibly on Eastern Parkway) showing tracks receding into tunnel in background; detached steam shovel car on tracks in left foreground; portion of boxcar under scaffolding in right foreground; one worker (back to camera) on middle tracks in background; portion of apartment building above steep embankment in right background; bare trees on top of both sides of embankment; light snow throughout. |
Date: | 1917 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
More Details: |
Title supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 1-17-1917. |
Collection: | Subway Construction [3]
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Subject: |
Subways [4] Embankments [5] Scaffolding [6] Railroad tracks [7] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Photographic prints. Gelatin silver prints. |
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 0170 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/a502629c9d81d3763876b8e6c61c23d1&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Subway+Construction
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Subways
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Embankments
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Scaffolding
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Railroad tracks