About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0037
  • Title[Joralemon Street with construction debris and hoses]
  • SummaryLengthwise view of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road and sidewalk reconstruction; three workers at left standing next to wooden barrier and looking into camera; horse and carriage opposite them; construction debris before workers, including two hoses snaking from center to lower left; brownstones at right, brick row houses at left. Typed caption on verso: "View of S.E. Shaft just after removal of head frame from S.W. shaft. Camera near S.W. corner of Joralemon and Henry Sts., looking W."
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 5.25.1905. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sidewalks -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Brownstone buildings -- 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