About This Item

  • Title[Subway construction site]
  • Call NumberSUB_0136
  • Cite AsSubway Construction Photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of subway construction site, presumably on or near Ashland Place in Fort Greene. Typed caption on verso: "Camera over the centreline on the south edge of Grennell's Bridge, looking south, showing general view of cut." Image includes large sign on building in right foreground, "Long Island Bird Store."
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate printed on recto: 4.9.1912. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectSigns and signboards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- 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.