About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0054
  • TitleCamera in gutter in front of 90 Joralemon St., looking east
  • SummaryView from corner of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road reconstruction; construction sheds and derrick blocking most of street in middle ground; two workhorses with feed bags in narrow passage between construction sheds; two workers (one blurred) on cart holding heavy slabs in right foreground. Typed caption on verso: "Camera in gutter in front of 90 Joralemon St., looking east, showing general view around the shaft."
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso. On recto: date inscribed: 1.16.1905. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Derricks, cranes, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Row houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsSubway Construction Photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderSubway Construction Photographs; Box 1