About This Item


  • TitleHanson Place
  • Call NumberSUB_0114
  • Cite AsSubway Construction Photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of a subway construction site on Hanson Place with large billboard, "J. W. Hodges Meat Market; Long Island Bird Store" in left background. Caption: "View looking north along the excavation from the north side of Hanson Place."
  • Date1911
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotpye ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate printed on recto: 6.2.1911. Stamped on verso: "Public Service Commission" and "Supreme Court." Title from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectBillboards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- 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.