Title: | Looking east from 15th Ave. showing concreting work |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing empty flatbed railroad cars being pulled through embankment; two workers standing on flatbed cars, other workers in foreground and background; iron rods projecting upright from portion of retaining wall in foreground; scaffolding holding back embankment at right; concrete mixer to left of train in background; two railroad cars on high embankment at left; smokestack of factory in background |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
More Details: |
Title from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Oct.-22-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction [3]
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Subject: |
Subways [4] Freight cars [5] Construction workers [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 0262 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/b704a4370354fb4c9e6d15e936c6eeb8&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/f/Freight cars
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Construction workers
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Embankments