Looking east from 20th Ave. showing platforms, retaining walls and roadbed
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| Title: | Looking east from 20th Ave. showing platforms, retaining walls and roadbed |
| Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing worker (blurred) walking on tracks in left foreground; tracks curving to right in distance; partly built subway platform with columns at left; scaffolding over retaining wall at right; backs of row houses or apartment buildings in background; billboard on side of buidling in right background reading, "ALCO HOUSES ARE THE BEST IN BROOKLYN AND EVERYBODY KNOWS IT." |
| Date: | 1914 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| More Details: |
Title from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Sept-28-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
| Collection: | Subway Construction
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| Subject: |
Subways Railroad tracks Billboards |
| 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 0236 |
