About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0172
  • Title[Early stage of subway construction on Eastern Parkway]
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the 2 and the 3 line) showing workers in foreground with shovels and pickaxes beginning to tear up surface of tree-lined sidewalk median; horse-drawn vehicles on roadway; pedestrians throughout; sign at road crossing in middle ground reads, "92+50."
  • Date1915
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 7-6-1915.
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown 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 2