About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0109
  • Title[Aerial view from roof of 972 4th Avenue]
  • SummaryAerial view of subway construction site on 4th Avenue taken from the roof of 972 4th Avenue. Additional inscription, "Looking n[orth], showing general progress." Image includes several residential buildings.
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewscyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate printed on recto: 2.6.1912. Stamped on verso: "Public Serivce Commission." Title from typed caption on verso; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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