Looking east from 18th Ave. showing arches, retaining walls, fence and roadbed
Title: | Looking east from 18th Ave. showing arches, retaining walls, fence and roadbed |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing tracks running between high, newly built retaining walls; railroad tiles stacked against retaining wall at right and piled haphazardly in foreground; two workers (backs to camera) walking along tracks in left background; two arches over tracks in left background; tops of row houses above retaining wall at left; bridge over tracks in background; poles with crossties running between tracks. |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
More Details: |
Title from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Sept-28-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction
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Subject: |
Subways Railroad tracks Retaining walls |
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 0239 |