Title: | [Subway construction on Eastern Parkway near reservoir] |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the 2 and the 3 line) showing large excavation supported by scaffolding, with workers and construction materials at bottom, between steep sides of embankment; former reservoir tower behind leafy trees on what is now Mount Prospect Park in left background; tops of row houses beyond embankment in right background; memorial arch at Grand Army Plaza in distant background. |
Date: | 1917 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Pullis, G. W. |
More Details: |
Title supplied by cataloger. Photographer's name from typed caption on verso. On recto: date inscribed: 9-11-1917. |
Collection: | Subway Construction [4]
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Subject: |
Subways [5] Water towers [6] Embankments [7] Lost architecture [8] |
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 0188 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/d3f726926ac2dfbd4565ff7ceacb6562&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/w/Water towers
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Embankments
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Lost architecture