Showing finished concrete retaining walls on south side looking east from L.I.R.R.
Title: | Showing finished concrete retaining walls on south side looking east from L.I.R.R. |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing two levels of tracks paralleled by retaining walls; portion of steam shovel on tracks in left foreground; wooden platforms propped against wall behind steam shovel; construction debris in foreground; rustic buildings and factory with smokestack in background; workers on higher tracks near factory. |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
More Details: |
Title (partly illegible) from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Oct.-22-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction
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Subject: |
Subways Factories Railroad tracks Retaining walls Steam shovels |
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 0268 |