About This Item

  • Title[Street in Brooklyn Heights with derrick, boom, and workhorses]
  • Call NumberSUB_0043
  • Cite AsSubway Construction Photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView from corner of residential street in Brooklyn Heights in process of road and sidewalk reconstruction; wooden derrick and attached sheds on street at right; boom rising diagonally over street at left; two workhorses pulling cart loaded with sandbags in middle ground; stack of piping next to horses; two men (one blurred) standing on sidewalk in right foreground; broom lying on curb at turning of corner in center foreground. Typed caption on verso: "General view of E. shafts, Camera in middle of Garden Pl., in line with north wall of 94 Joralemon St., looking N.E."
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 4.[2].1905.
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cranes, derricks, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York ; Horses -- 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.)
  • 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.