Title: | [Subway construction at Eastern Parkway and Bedford Avenue] |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the 2 and the 3 line) showing workers in deep trench with boxcar and steam shovel; bisecting tracks in foreground; ladder propped against wall of embankment next to worker in right foreground; equestrian statue of General Slocum (later moved to Grand Army Plaza) above embankment in right background. |
Date: | 1915 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
Title supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 12-9-1915. |
Collection: | Subway Construction [4]
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Subject: |
Subways [5] Embankments [6] Construction workers [7] Railroad tracks [8] Steam shovels [9] Equestrian statues [10] |
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 0171 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/7117437bcc295e4f1b6180b20e566d5d&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Crown+Heights+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Subway+Construction
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Subways
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Embankments
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Construction workers
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Railroad tracks
[9] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Steam shovels
[10] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Equestrian statues