Cut looking east from 20th Ave. showing station concreting and underpinning of houses on south side right of way
Title: | Cut looking east from 20th Ave. showing station concreting and underpinning of houses on south side right of way |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing surveyor or engineer on tracks making notes in left foreground; other workers and pedestrians behind him; tracks curving to right and receding into distance; retaining wall and beginning of unbuilt subway station at left; exposed foundation of brick building at right; billboard ("ALco HOUSES ARE THE BEST IN BROOKLYN AND EVERYBODY KNOWS IT") in right background. |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
More Details: |
Title from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Aug-25-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction
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Subject: |
Subways Railroad tracks Engineers Billboards |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Photographic prints. Gelatin silver prints. |
Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library. |
ID: | SUB 0214 |