Title: | Birds eye view, operations and steel work between 4th and 5th Aves. looking southeast from 64th St. west of 4th Ave. |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing chutes on wooden trestles descending from top of embankment at left to track work at right; one railroad car at bottom of embankment in middle ground; stacks of building materials and pulley on tripod in right foreground; gas tank and scattered houses in background. |
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] Trestles [6] Embankments [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 0230 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/bac069b481227473a3795f3f88fab2d5&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/t/Trestles
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Embankments