Looking east from 16th Ave. bridge showing Desbrocks siding
Title: | Looking east from 16th Ave. bridge showing Desbrocks siding |
Description: | Aerial view of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing retaining wall bordering tracks on right and factory with smokestack (perhaps known as "Desbrocks") bordering tracks on left; boxcars filled with gravel on tracks at left; partially built tunnel over tracks in right foreground; vacant field bordered by wooden houses in right background; ballast poles between tracks. |
Date: | 1915 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
More Details: |
Title from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Jan-3-1915. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction
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Subject: |
Subways Factories Retaining walls Freight cars 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 0290 |