Title: | Showing excavations for 4th Ave. sub station at 4th Ave. and 64th St. looking west showing pile of excavation material from 4th Ave. subway excavation |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing men with four teams of paired horses excavating large trench in vacant lot; hill of dirt behind them; hats and coats of some workers laying on stony soil in foreground; two or three bystanders in left background watching work from behind barricade; unhitched cart on street at right. |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Bay Ridge (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] Construction workers [6] Horses [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 0227 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/b025d2ea927d5e10b01b7c1828fd731f&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Bay+Ridge+%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/c/Construction workers
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/h/Horses