About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0211
  • TitleLooking west from 20th Ave. showing retaining wall, roadbed and 20th Ave. station
  • SummaryView of construction site for subway line (the Sea Beach or N line) showing surveyors taking measurements on tracks in middle ground; crowd of bystanders at left watching them; partly built subway platform with columns at right; two billboards above embankment at left reading, "HOME AT $5500. SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER" and "MAPLETON PARK OFFICE."
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 12 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on recto. On recto: date inscribed: Aug-25-1914. Photographer's name inscribed on recto: "Urquhart."
  • SubjectSubways -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Billboards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad tracks -- New York (State) -- New York ; Surveyors -- 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