Looking east showing cutting through 5th Ave. and removal of old walls
Title: | Looking east showing cutting through 5th Ave. and removal of old walls |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing steam shovel (lettered "BUCYRUS" on side) dismantling masonry wall before trestle bridge; worker looking out from rear platform of steam shovel; other workers on tracks near partially dismantled wall; building with billboard advertising metal worker for hire above retaining wall in left background. |
Date: | 1914 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
More Details: |
Title 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 Construction workers Railroad tracks 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 0270 |