![Close view of excavation and snerting [sic] on curve from Sea Beach line to 4th Ave. subway looking northwest](../../external.gif?link=http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/3807831eebbdef061e7d48306b51d862&ext=.jpg)
| Title: | Close view of excavation and snerting [sic] on curve from Sea Beach line to 4th Ave. subway looking northwest |
| Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing wooden scaffolding built over trench descending from street; worker crawling over scaffold in left foreground; steam shovel on street above trench; steeply eroded embankment on both sides of trench; top of wooden house in background. |
| Date: | 1914 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
| More Details: |
Title from inscriptionon recto. On recto: date inscribed: Aug-25-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
| Collection: | Subway Construction [3]
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| Subject: |
Subways [4] Scaffolding [5] Embankments [6] Construction workers [7] Steam shovels [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 0229 |