About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0010
  • TitleWork on Joralemon street between Henry and Hicks
  • SummaryLengthwise view of residential street in Brooklyn Heights with new coat of asphalt; cart of wagon with workers and machinery for paving in background; four or five workers (several looking into camera) with tools and implements relaxing on corner in left foreground; woman in long dress and hat emerging from brownstone at right. Typed caption on verso: "Work on Joralemon street between Henry and Hicks. Camera in line with east curb of Henry street looking west."
  • 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: 6-10-1905. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Brownstone buildings -- 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