Title: | Looking west from bridge over L.I.R.R. showing contractors equipment between 7th and 8th Aves. |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing steam shovel in right foreground and bridge in two parts (half concrete, half wooden trestle) crossing rail tracks and embankment at left; workers on tracks and on top of embankment; factory with smokestack and water towers in background. |
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] Steam shovels [5] Bridges [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 0204 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/22c01994db3068e1856370b5e44d5244&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/s/Steam shovels
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Bridges
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Embankments
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Railroad tracks