About This Item


  • Title[Joralemon Street looking west]
  • Call NumberSUB_0036
  • Cite AsSubway Construction Photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryLengthwise view of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road and sidewalk reconstruction; workers and work horses gathered around wooden derrick at right; pile of dirt before derrick; worker (partly visible) bending over barrel near pile of dirt; intersection with Garden Place in left background; brownstones at right, brick rowhouses at left. Typed caption on verso: "View of surface of ground after completion of filling of S.E. shaft. Camera in street in line with east wall of 108 Joralemon St., looking west."
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 6.6.1905. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sidewalks -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Brownstone buildings -- 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.)
  • 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.