About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0065
  • TitleShop house from n.w. cor. Henry St
  • SummaryLengthwise view from right of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road reconstruction; wooden derrick and construction shed at left; shed has sign reading, 'KEEP OUT THIS MEANS YOU"'; boom suspended at angle over street in background; two workhorses pulling loaded carts down street in background; boards, planks, upended wheelbarrow, and patches of snow in left foreground.
  • Date1904
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. On recto: date inscribed: 2-5-1904. "Put in '04" inscribed in grease pencil on recto. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cranes, derricks, etc. -- 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