About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0112
  • TitleAshland Place
  • SummaryView of subway construction site on Ashland Place at the intersection of Hanson Place. Image includes several attached residential buildings and elevated trolley station in background. Caption: "Camera on top of stoop of 37 Ashland Place looking southwest showing Snare & Triest derrick and also the Bradley derrick and engine house at Hanson Place."
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteDate printed on recto: 11.1.1912. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectDerricks, cranes, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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