| Title: | Looking east showing cutting through 5th Ave. and removal of old walls |
| Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing steam shovel (lettered "BUCYRUS" on side) dismantling masonry wall before trestle bridge; worker looking out from rear platform of steam shovel; other workers on tracks near partially dismantled wall; building with billboard advertising metal worker for hire above retaining wall in left 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] Construction workers [5] Railroad tracks [6] Steam shovels [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 0270 |