About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0290
  • TitleLooking east from 16th Ave. bridge showing Desbrocks siding
  • SummaryAerial view of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing retaining wall bordering tracks on right and factory with smokestack (perhaps known as "Desbrocks") bordering tracks on left; boxcars filled with gravel on tracks at left; partially built tunnel over tracks in right foreground; vacant field bordered by wooden houses in right background; ballast poles between tracks.
  • Date1915
  • 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: Jan-3-1915. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Factories -- New York (State) -- New York ; Retaining walls -- New York (State) -- New York ; Freight cars -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad tracks -- 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