Looking north showing east portal of subway and walls between 4th and 5th Aves.
Title: | Looking north showing east portal of subway and walls between 4th and 5th Aves. |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing beginning of tunnel on left side of retaining wall; steam shovel and other railroad equipment on tracks above retaining wall; portion of second steam shovel on lower ground at far right; chute on trestles descending down embankment at top; tracks and construction debris in foreground. |
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 Steam shovels Trestles 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 0259 |