About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0239
  • TitleLooking east from 18th Ave. showing arches, retaining walls, fence and roadbed
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing tracks running between high, newly built retaining walls; railroad tiles stacked against retaining wall at right and piled haphazardly in foreground; two workers (backs to camera) walking along tracks in left background; two arches over tracks in left background; tops of row houses above retaining wall at left; bridge over tracks in background; poles with crossties running between tracks.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 12 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Sept-28-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Retaining walls -- 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