About This Item

  • Title[Crowd in subway tunnel]
  • Call NumberTRAN_0349
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (TRAN 0350, TRAN 0348, TRAN 0347, TRAN 0353), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five views of crowd, mostly men, standing in subway tunnels and platforms. Inscriptions: 0348, 0349: "First trip from Manhattan to Brooklyn;" 0350: "Mayor Low ... 1st B'klyn train for public, Jan. 8, 1908;" Seth Low served as mayor of New York City, 1902-1903. One of the images is not dated.
  • Date1907, 1908
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description5 photographic prints : b 7 w, gelatin silver
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso of 0347, 0348, and 0349: Eagle stamp. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectLow, Seth, 1850-1916 ; Subway stations -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)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.