Title: | Looking east from 20th Ave. showing platforms, retaining walls and roadbed |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing worker (blurred) walking on tracks in left foreground; tracks curving to right in distance; partly built subway platform with columns at left; scaffolding over retaining wall at right; backs of row houses or apartment buildings in background; billboard on side of buidling in right background reading, "ALCO HOUSES ARE THE BEST IN BROOKLYN AND EVERYBODY KNOWS IT." |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
More Details: |
Title from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Sept-28-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction [3]
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Subject: |
Subways [4] Railroad tracks [5] Billboards [6] |
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 0236 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/0f3f2fd52f7c27d0a3d952d979077c61&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/r/Railroad tracks
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Billboards