About This Item

  • Call NumberUNDE_0047
  • TitleBrooklyn Rapid Transit Powerhouse
  • SummaryAerial view of Brooklyn Rapid Transit Powerhouse, a large, brick building with four smokestacks on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, and environs.
  • Date1910
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NotePhotographer's name inscribed on recto. Title from inscription on recto. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorUnderhill, Irving, -1960
  • SubjectPower-plants -- New York (State) -- New York ; Smokestacks -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsIrving I. Underhill photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/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.
  • FolderIrving I. Underhill photograph collection