About This Item
- Title[Detached steam shovel car at subway excavation]
- Call NumberSUB_0170
- Cite AsSubway Construction Photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryView of construction site for subway line (possibly on Eastern Parkway) showing tracks receding into tunnel in background; detached steam shovel car on tracks in left foreground; portion of boxcar under scaffolding in right foreground; one worker (back to camera) on middle tracks in background; portion of apartment building above steep embankment in right background; bare trees on top of both sides of embankment; light snow throughout.
- Date1917
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 1-17-1917.
- SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Embankments -- New York (State) -- New York ; Scaffolding -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (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.