About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0016
  • TitleGeneral view of work on street near Garden place
  • SummaryView looking down at intersection in Brooklyn Heights showing residential street in process of road reconstruction; man in suit (apparently supervisor) standing near laboring men in right foreground; two or three workhorses in right foreground; group of workers in left foreground standing around wheelbarrow and looking up at camera; lone man standing on roof of building under construction in background. Typed label on verso: "General view of work on street near Garden place. Camera on stoop at 97 Joralemon street looking west."
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso. On recto: date inscribed: 9-1-05.
  • 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 ; 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