Showing work on retaining wall between 6th and 7th Ave.
Title: | Showing work on retaining wall between 6th and 7th Ave. |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing steam shovel loading freight cars with dirt; two workers (blurred) with hand-powered car on tracks in left foreground; retaining wall above embankment at left; bridge with graffiti ("SADIE.MALONEY.IS A HOOR") over tracks in middle ground. |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
More Details: |
Title (partly illegible) 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 Railroad tracks Freight cars |
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 0253 |