About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0046
  • Title[Street in Brooklyn Heights with workers at construction site]
  • SummaryLengthwise view of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road and sidewalk reconstruction; wooden derrick with attached shed on right side of street; worker in profile in front of derrick; man in overcoat walking towards camera to left of derrick and shed; scaffold around excavation in left foreground; two workers (one barely visible) in or around scaffold; pedestrian leaning against railing of brick rowhouse at right and looking into camera; portion of tall boom at far left; brownstones at left, brick row houses at right. Typed caption on verso: "General view of S. E/ shaft, taken from near S.E. corner Joralemon St. & Garden Pl."
  • 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: 4-17-1905.
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cranes, derricks, etc. -- 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