About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0053
  • TitleCamera at s.w. corner Joralemon St. & Garden Pl., Bkn., looking n.e
  • SummaryView from corner of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road reconstruction; boom operated by worker in foreground rising to derrick at left; workers at and around derrick and construction sheds; team of horses partly visible in background; wooden fence covering gap between two brownstones at left. Typed caption on verso: "Camera at s.w. corner Joralemon St. & Garden Pl., Bkn., looking n.e., showing general view about shafts #1 & 2."
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed label on verso. On recto: date inscribed: 2.17.1905. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Derricks, cranes, etc. -- 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.)
  • 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 1