| Title: | Looking west from 300 feet east of 18th Ave. showing retaining walls, arches, machinery and roadbed |
| Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing steam shovel on tracks next to retaining walls at left; pile of railroad ties near steam shovel; other railroad machinery further along tracks at left; workers standing on or near tracks in middle ground; two arches over tracks in right background; backs of row houses and apartment houses above retaining walls; poles with crossties running between tracks. |
| 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] Retaining walls [6] Steam shovels [7] Arches [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 0240 |