Title: | Looking west from 22nd Ave. trolley station landing |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing steam shovel on tracks before piles of dirt and newly dug embankment at right; scaffolding over embankment and retaining wall at left; scoop of second steam shovel and ballast pole in right foreground; apartment buildings in background. |
Date: | 1915 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
More Details: |
Title from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Jan-3-1915. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction [3]
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Subject: |
Subways [4] Embankments [5] Steam shovels [6] Railroad tracks [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 0295 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/9033b5618d424e50a6fc3cdf26fdf53a&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/e/Embankments
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Steam shovels
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Railroad tracks