Showing incline wall and retaining wall at east end of Desbrocks looking west
| Title: | Showing incline wall and retaining wall at east end of Desbrocks looking west |
| Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing retaining wall against embankment partly covered by scaffolding; workers (some blurred) walking along tracks at left; factory building with smokestack (perhaps known as "Desbrocks") in background. |
| 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 Retaining walls Scaffolding Factories |
| 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 0242 |





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