Title: | Looking southeast from north of 65th St. |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing men working at cement mixer in middle ground; tracks and embankment curving away in background; two houses with exposed foundations above steep embankment at right, with man looking down from porch of house on far right; wheelbarrows, planks, sandbags, and heaps of dirt in foreground; ditch of wet concrete in right foreground. |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
More Details: |
Title (partly unintelligible) from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Aug-31-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction [3]
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Subject: |
Subways [4] Concrete mixers [5] Railroad tracks [6] Construction workers [7] |
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 0212 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/17cd800d70798b02bb19d08c98869160&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/Concrete mixers
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Railroad tracks
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Construction workers