About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0283
  • TitleLooking east from Fort Hamilton Ave. showing both station platforms and roadbed
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (SUB 0284), some of which may also be described in this new record; Length-wise view of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing tracks receding into distance beneath iron bridge; station platform at right with enclosed canopy; station platform at left with open canopy; ballast poles between tracks. Images identical.
  • Date1915
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 12 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Jan-3-1915. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subway stations -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad tracks -- 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