About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0003
  • Title[Southeast corner of Court and Joralemon Streets]
  • SummaryIntersection in Brooklyn Heights showing work crews digging up streets and piles of dirt at right and left; man standing on wooden cart harnessed to two horses in center; sun umbrella on cart; portion of blurred four-wheel carriage at left; prominent sign on storefront at left reads, "BLANK BOOKS AND DIARIES"; trolley tracks in foreground. Typed caption on verso: "Camera on sidewalk S.E. corner Court & Joralemon Sts. looking west showing N.Y.M.&N.T.Co. work."
  • Date1907
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 8-7-1907. 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
  • 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