About This Item


  • Title[Ashland Place]
  • Call NumberSUB_0111
  • Cite AsSubway Construction Photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of a subway construction site on Ashland Place. Image includes a portion of the Brooklyn Academy of Music on far right and three row houses and portion of a large, commercial building in left background. Typed caption on verso: "Camera on west sidewalk, looking north, showing west sidewalk."
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate printed on recto: 10-1-1912. Title from inscription on recto; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.