Title: | New Utrecht Ave. crossing looking west showing trestle for L. trains |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing trestle bridge at angle crossing over tracks; tracks underneath mostly buried under mounds of dirt; workers digging into dirt below trestle and pushing wheelbarrows above trestle; two surveyors with tripod on low ground at bottom center; buildings and billboards in background. |
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] Construction workers [5] Surveyors [6] Trestles [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 0247 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/1b4ffbf4d321869f3b38db3042cb55e1&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/c/Construction workers
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Surveyors
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/t/Trestles