About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0071
  • TitleView looking s.w. showing street in fron of Municipal Building
  • SummaryLengthwise view of Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights showing process of roadwork on street; two columns of former Municipal Building (since destroyed) at left; back of Borough Hall at right, with Temple Bar office building across street from Borough Hall; horse and carriage at curb in foreground; elaborately carved lamppost next to horse and carriage; pedestrians walking along sidewalk at left; work crew digging up road surface at right; trolley tracks and along Joralemon Street.
  • Date1904
  • 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: 9-15-1904. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Office buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- 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