About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0020
  • TitleView of Joralemon street west of Garden place
  • SummaryLengthwise view of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road and sidewalk reconstruction; three workers at left apparently cutting blocks of stone; lamppost and with Garden Place at left; barrel and construction debris at right; brownstones (one with striped awning) at right, brick rowhouses at left. Typed label on verso: "View of Joralemon street west of Garden place. Camera 15 ft. east of Garden Place."
  • 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 typed: Aug. 26, 05.
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sidewalks -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Stone-cutters -- 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