About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0135
  • TitleAshland Place
  • SummaryAerial view of subway construction site. Caption: "View of cut on west side of Ashland Place, looking north from elevated structure on Flatbush Avenue." Image includes several residential and commercial buildings, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music in right background.
  • Date1911
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate printed on recto: 1.30.1911. Stamped on verso: "Public Service Commission." Title from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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 2