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[Early stage of subway construction on Eastern Parkway with steam shovel]

[Early stage of subway construction on Eastern Parkway with steam shovel]
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Title: [Early stage of subway construction on Eastern Parkway with steam shovel]
Description:

View of construction site for subway line (the 2 and the 3 line) showing pedestrians milling about tree-lined sidewalk median; wooden barrier seperating some pedestrians from others; steam shovel at right; vacant field at left; trolley tracks crossing cobblestone street in foreground; sign at road crossing on median reads, "92+50."
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: 7-6-1915.
Collection: Subway Construction [4]
Subject: Subways [5]
Streets [6]
Steam shovels [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 0181
 
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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/Streets
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Steam shovels