About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0229
  • TitleClose view of excavation and snerting [sic] on curve from Sea Beach line to 4th Ave. subway looking northwest
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing wooden scaffolding built over trench descending from street; worker crawling over scaffold in left foreground; steam shovel on street above trench; steeply eroded embankment on both sides of trench; top of wooden house in background.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 12 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscriptionon recto. On recto: date inscribed: Aug-25-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Scaffolding -- New York (State) -- New York ; Embankments -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Steam shovels -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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 3