Looking west from 8th Ave showing [progress] on station
Title: | Looking west from 8th Ave showing [progress] on station |
Description: | View of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing supervisor on tracks in foreground observing two workers before him; slightly curving station platfroms with canopies on both sides of tracks; several workers on right station platfrom in foreground; construction materials and debris on tracks and roadbed; factory with smokestack and water towers in background. |
Date: | 1915 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
More Details: |
Title from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Jan-14-1915. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart." |
Collection: | Subway Construction
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Subject: |
Subways Subway stations Construction workers Railroad tracks |
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 0300 |