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[Subway construction on Eastern Parkway with steam shovel in trench]

[Subway construction on Eastern Parkway with steam shovel in trench]
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Title: [Subway construction on Eastern Parkway with steam shovel in trench]
Description:

View of construction site for subway line (the 2 and the 3 line) showing steam shovel and truck in trench, with ladder against embankment at left; crowd of men and boys watching work from top of left embankment; construction shed and outhouse above embankment in center; vacant field in left background; former reservoir tower on Mount Prospect Park in distant 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: 7-14-1915.
Collection: Subway Construction [4]
Subject: Subways [5]
Steam shovels [6]
Streets [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 0173
 
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[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/s/Steam shovels
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Streets