[Joralemon Street with derrick and boom] - Digital Collections

Call NumberSUB_0039
Title[Joralemon Street with derrick and boom]
SummaryLengthwise view of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road reconstruction; large wooden derrick built over excavation at right; boom rising diagonally over street at left; workers and work cart next to derrick; beginning of intersection in right foreground. Typed caption on verso: "General view of E. shafts near S.W. Cor. Garden Pl. and Joralemon Sts. looking E."
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: 5.22.1905. 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 ; Construction workers -- 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