Showing excavations for 4th Ave. sub station at 4th Ave. and 64th St. looking west showing pile of excavation material from 4th Ave. subway excavation

Showing excavations for 4th Ave. sub station at 4th Ave. and 64th St. looking west showing pile of excavation material from 4th Ave. subway excavation
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Title: Showing excavations for 4th Ave. sub station at 4th Ave. and 64th St. looking west showing pile of excavation material from 4th Ave. subway excavation
Description:

View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing men with four teams of paired horses excavating large trench in vacant lot; hill of dirt behind them; hats and coats of some workers laying on stony soil in foreground; two or three bystanders in left background watching work from behind barricade; unhitched cart on street at right.

Date: 1914
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Bay Ridge (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title from inscription on recto.
On recto: date inscribed: Aug-25-1914.
Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
Collection: Subway Construction
Subject: Subways
Construction workers
Horses
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 0227