About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0033
  • TitleMen taking up 6" air pipes on south side of Joralemon St. near No. 80 to #88
  • SummaryLengthwise view of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road reconstruction; two workers in left foreground (one blurred) using picks or bars to tear up surface, leaving a long narrow trench behind them; other workers with horses and carts in background; woman sitting on stoop at left with baby in carriage before her; other pedestrians along sidewalk in left background. Typed caption on verso: "Men taking up 6" air pipes on south side of Joralemon St. near No. 80 to #88. Camera in middle of street opposite east wall of #90 Joralemon St., looking west."
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso. On recto: date inscribed: 6-23-0[5]. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- 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