Looking west from 300 feet east of 18th Ave. showing retaining walls, arches, machinery and roadbed

Looking west from 300 feet east of 18th Ave. showing retaining walls, arches, machinery and roadbed
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Title: Looking west from 300 feet east of 18th Ave. showing retaining walls, arches, machinery and roadbed
Description:

View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing steam shovel on tracks next to retaining walls at left; pile of railroad ties near steam shovel; other railroad machinery further along tracks at left; workers standing on or near tracks in middle ground; two arches over tracks in right background; backs of row houses and apartment houses above retaining walls; 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
Subject: Subways
Railroad tracks
Retaining walls
Steam shovels
Arches
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 0240