About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0100
  • TitleLafayette Avenue
  • SummaryView of a subway construction site along Lafayette Avenue with sign, "The Majestic," in far background. Caption: "View looking north along the excavation at the west neat line from the north line of Lafayette Avenue."
  • Date1911
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate printed on recto: 6.2.1911. Stamped on verso: "Public Service Commission." Title from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectElectricians -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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