[Street in Brooklyn Heights with derrick, boom, and sheds]

[Street in Brooklyn Heights with derrick, boom, and sheds]
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Title: [Street in Brooklyn Heights with derrick, boom, and sheds]
Description:

Lengthwise view of street of brownstones in Brooklyn Heights in process of road reconstruction; wooden derrick with attached work sheds in left foreground; boom rising diagonally over street in right background; workhorses and workers next to boom; other workers or pedestrians on sidewalk at right, including woman walking down street with back to camera; brownstone stoops and leafless sapling with protective railing in right foreground. Typed caption on verso: "General view of east shafts after removal of machine shop. Camera near N.W. corner Henry & Joralemon Sts."

Date: 1905
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
On recto: date inscribed: 4.28.1905.
Collection: Subway Construction
Subject: Streets
Streets
Cranes, derricks, etc
Brownstone buildings
Row houses
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Photographic prints.
Cyanotypes.
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 0044