[Subway construction at Eastern Parkway and Bedford Avenue] - Digital Collections

Call NumberSUB_0171
Title[Subway construction at Eastern Parkway and Bedford Avenue]
SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the 2 and the 3 line) showing workers in deep trench with boxcar and steam shovel; bisecting tracks in foreground; ladder propped against wall of embankment next to worker in right foreground; equestrian statue of General Slocum (later moved to Grand Army Plaza) above embankment in right background.
Date1915
Formatstill image
Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 12-9-1915.
SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Embankments -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Steam shovels -- New York (State) -- New York ; Equestrian statues -- New York (State) -- New York
CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown 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 2