About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0044
  • Title[Street in Brooklyn Heights with derrick, boom, and sheds]
  • SummaryLengthwise view of street of brownstones in Brooklyn Heights in process of road reconstruction; wooden derrick with attached work sheds in left foreground; boom rising diagonally over street in right background; workhorses and workers next to boom; other workers or pedestrians on sidewalk at right, including woman walking down street with back to camera; brownstone stoops and leafless sapling with protective railing in right foreground. Typed caption on verso: "General view of east shafts after removal of machine shop. Camera near N.W. corner Henry & Joralemon Sts."
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 4.28.1905.
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cranes, derricks, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York ; Brownstone buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Row houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn 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 1