Title: | General view of concreting work between 4th and 5th Aves. looking west from 200 feet west of 5th Ave. |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing two chutes on trestles sloping down embankment from upper right to lower left; subway tracks running diagonally under trestles from left background to right foreground; worker carrying planks on lower ground at left. |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
More Details: |
Title from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: July-17-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction [3]
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Subject: |
Subways [4] Construction workers [5] Trestles [6] Embankments [7] Railroad tracks [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 0193 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/ead137c905c0f6ea9c62d54ff4942deb&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/c/Construction workers
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/t/Trestles
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Embankments
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Railroad tracks