About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0170
  • Title[Detached steam shovel car at subway excavation]
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (possibly on Eastern Parkway) showing tracks receding into tunnel in background; detached steam shovel car on tracks in left foreground; portion of boxcar under scaffolding in right foreground; one worker (back to camera) on middle tracks in background; portion of apartment building above steep embankment in right background; bare trees on top of both sides of embankment; light snow throughout.
  • Date1917
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 1-17-1917.
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Embankments -- New York (State) -- New York ; Scaffolding -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad tracks -- 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 2