About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0253
  • TitleShowing work on retaining wall between 6th and 7th Ave
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing steam shovel loading freight cars with dirt; two workers (blurred) with hand-powered car on tracks in left foreground; retaining wall above embankment at left; bridge with graffiti ("SADIE.MALONEY.IS A HOOR") over tracks in middle ground.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 12 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle (partly illegible) 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 ; Steam shovels -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Freight cars -- 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