About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0236
  • TitleLooking east from 20th Ave. showing platforms, retaining walls and roadbed
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing worker (blurred) walking on tracks in left foreground; tracks curving to right in distance; partly built subway platform with columns at left; scaffolding over retaining wall at right; backs of row houses or apartment buildings in background; billboard on side of buidling in right background reading, "ALCO HOUSES ARE THE BEST IN BROOKLYN AND EVERYBODY KNOWS IT."
  • 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: Sept-28-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Billboards -- 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