About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0177
  • Title[Subway construction on Eastern Parkway with workers digging trench]
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the 2 and the 3 line) showing long trench with seven workers holding shovels and looking into camera in foreground; other workers laying track on higher ground at right and resting along tree-lined embankment at left; automobile, truck, steam shovel, and horse teams towards rear of trench; apartment buildings behinds screen of trees in right background; former reservoir tower on Mount Prospect Park in distant background.
  • Date1915
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 9-2-1915.
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Embankments -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown 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 2