About This Item

  • TitleHanson Place
  • Call NumberSUB_0124
  • Cite AsSubway Construction Photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of subway construction site on Hanson Place. Caption: "View looking north from the north side of Hanson Place along the line of the cut." Image includes large billboard in left background, "J. W. Hodges Meat Market" and "Long Island Bird Store."
  • Date1911
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate printed on recto: 5.4.1911. Stamped on verso: "Public Service Commission." Title from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectBillboards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs 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.