Title: | Detail of concrete forms and pouring apparatus at southeasterly end of curve at 4th Ave. |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing two men (perhaps engineers) taking measurements on wooden caisson apparently used for pouring concrete; chutes on trestles beyond caisson running down slope of embankment; three workers on trestle; one worker next to engineers on caisson. |
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] Engineers [6] Trestles [7] Embankments [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 0194 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/f8875dca61d6652c2148f68f9f542540&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/e/Engineers
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/t/Trestles
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Embankments