[Detached steam shovel car at subway excavation]

[Detached steam shovel car at subway excavation]
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Title: [Detached steam shovel car at subway excavation]
Description:

View 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.

Date: 1917
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
On recto: date inscribed: 1-17-1917.
Collection: Subway Construction
Subject: Subways
Embankments
Scaffolding
Railroad tracks
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 0170