About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0158
  • Title42 St. looking N
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (probably the present R line) showing trench dug along length of tree-lined street in Sunset Park; man, woman, and child standing next to wooden fence along trench in right foreground; vacant lot behind them; brownstones and other residential buildings in background.
  • Date1915
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: 6-28-1915.
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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