About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0190
  • TitleLooking west from 20th Ave. showing progress of construction work
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing two parallel tracks receeding into distance; poles with crossbars between tracks; winch or derrick before building at right; clapboard building with sign ("MAPLETON PARK OFFICE") at left; billboard ("HOME AT $5500") above clapboard building; two women (partly cut off by missing portion of corner of image) conversing at lower left.
  • 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: July -17-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Billboards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Winches -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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