About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0189
  • Title[Surveyors and workers at subway construction site]
  • SummaryTwo surveyors with equipment looking into camera from bottom of subway construction site at unknown location in Brooklyn; two other workers at left also looking into camera; construction debris on ground; scaffolding at top over entrance to tunnels; worker on top of tunnel at far left bending over to peer into camera.
  • Date1917
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 5-11-1917.
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Surveyors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Scaffolding -- 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 2