About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0195
  • TitleShowing trench and concrete work on cut at 4th Ave. looking north from spoil heap
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing scaffold of wood and metal rods in curving trench; one worker standing on scaffold in right foreground; other workers at rear of trench; tops of two houses beyond embankment in background.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 12 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: July-17-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Trestles -- 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