About This Item

  • Title[Subway construction, probably on Eastern Parkway]
  • Call NumberSUB_0187
  • 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 on tree-lined street; two surveyors with equipment on mound of dirt at right side of excavation; other workers on top of and under scaffolding at left side of excavation; tracks partly visible beneath scaffolding; row houses with window awnings behind screen of trees in left background; single park bench on edge of embankment in left foreground.
  • 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: 9-11-1917.
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Embankments -- New York (State) -- New York ; Surveyors -- 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.