About This Item


  • Title[Subway construction on Eastern Parkway near reservoir]
  • Call NumberSUB_0188
  • Cite AsSubway Construction Photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the 2 and the 3 line) showing large excavation supported by scaffolding, with workers and construction materials at bottom, between steep sides of embankment; former reservoir tower behind leafy trees on what is now Mount Prospect Park in left background; tops of row houses beyond embankment in right background; memorial arch at Grand Army Plaza in distant background.
  • Date1917
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Photographer's name from typed caption on verso. On recto: date inscribed: 9-11-1917.
  • CreatorPullis, G. W.
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Water towers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Embankments -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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.