About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0049
  • TitleCamera near s.w. corner Joralemon St. & Garden Pl., looking east
  • SummaryView from right of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road and sidewalk reconstruction; large construction shed at right and smaller one at left; driver on open cart pulled by horse towards sheds; large booms rising at left amid construction debris; man in overcoat (back to camera) standing next to garbage cans on sidewalk corner in right foreground. Typed caption on verso: "Camera near s.w. corner Joralemon & Garden Pl., looking east, showing general view about shafts #1 & 2, and engine house being torn down."
  • 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: 3.14.1905. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cranes, derricks, etc. -- 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