About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0048
  • TitleCamera near n.w. corner Joralemon & Henry Sts., Bkn., looking west
  • SummaryLengthwise view from right of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road and sidewalk reconstruction; wooden derrick and construction shed at left; second, smaller shed at right; worker standing on horse-drawn cart with sandbags in narrow passage between sheds; woman (back to camera) walking down sidewalk at right; second worker in profile standing next to horse-drawn cart; stacks of pipes and metal girders in right foreground; heaps of snow, dirt, and construction debris at right and left. Typed caption on verso: "Camera near n.w. corner Joralemon & Henry Sts., Bkn., looking west, showing general view about shafts #1 & 2."
  • 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: 3.14.1905. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cranes, derricks, etc. -- 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