About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0035
  • Title[Joralemon Street with workers and wooden barrier]
  • SummaryLengthwise view from left of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road and sidewalk reconstruction; workers at right, some hidden by low wooden barrier before them; two carts to left of workers; approaching horse and carriage in left background; intersection with Garden Place in left background; brownstones (two with striped awnings) at right, brick rowhouses at left. Typed caption on verso: "Northeast shaft after removal of derrick. Camera over south curb, 10' east of east line of 98 Joralemon St."
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: 6.6.1905. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • 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 ; 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