About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0180
  • Title[Worker and locomotive in subway tunnel]
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line at unknown location in Brooklyn showing worker in tunnel standing next to locomotive issuing steam from steampipe; scaffolding overhead and on wall of right embankment; two lines of track (right one curved) running from foreground to background.
  • Date1917
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 1-11-1917.
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subway tunnels -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Locomotives -- New York (State) -- New York ; Scaffolding -- 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 2