About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0227
  • TitleShowing excavations for 4th Ave. sub station at 4th Ave. and 64th St. looking west showing pile of excavation material from 4th Ave. subway excavation
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing men with four teams of paired horses excavating large trench in vacant lot; hill of dirt behind them; hats and coats of some workers laying on stony soil in foreground; two or three bystanders in left background watching work from behind barricade; unhitched cart on street at right.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 12 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Aug-25-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Horses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBay Ridge (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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 3