Showing roadbed progress and contractors

Showing roadbed progress and contractors
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Title: Showing roadbed progress and contractors
Description:

View of construction site near 66th Street for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing steam shovel dropping dirt into flatbed of rail car; operator of steam shovel sitting at controls; worker standig in empty rail car observing progress of steam shovel; rail tracks curving along embankment at right; row houses on both sides of construction site; poles with cross bars along rail tracks.
Date: 1914
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title (partly illegible) from inscription on recto.
On recto: date inscribed: Aug.-31-1914.
Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
Collection: Subway Construction
Subject: Subways
Steam shovels
Railroad tracks
Construction workers
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 0210