Title: | Looking west from north side of cut showing trestle for El trains opposite New Utrecht Ave. & 62nd St. |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing four workers on top of embankment at right lowering large wooden beam to worker below; two temporary wooden bridges crossing tracks at angle; worker crossing first bridge at left, and two men at second bridge looking over railings; heaps of dirt on rail bed in foreground; tops of houses (one with billboard for "WISSNER PIANO") in background. |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] New Utrecht (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
Title from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Aug-25-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction [4]
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Subject: |
Subways [5] Railroad tracks [6] Bridges [7] Construction workers [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 0222 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/a0023efb1679f00e68d268adec36d874&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/New+Utrecht+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Subway+Construction
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Subways
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Railroad tracks
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Bridges
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Construction workers