Title: | Looking west from 5th Ave. showing equipment of Wilson and English Co. |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing train with cement mixer approaching tunnel in left background; second tunnel in right background; chutes on trestles sloping down embankment towards trench supported by scaffolding at right; workers at sand heap with two horses and cart in middle ground. |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
More Details: |
Title from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Aug.-18-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction [3]
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Subject: |
Subways [4] Railroad trains [5] Construction workers [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 0198 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/60a5d9dfaf06fa87f79ed31c82ce65c5&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/r/Railroad trains
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Construction workers
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Embankments
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Railroad tracks