About This Item

  • Call NumberSUB_0041
  • TitleFrence, south side Joralemon St. Entrance to small park
  • SummaryLengthwise view of sidewalk in Brooklyn Heights, with former Municipal Building (since destroyed) at right; mother and child and one other woman walking toward camera; large crowd of pedestrians behind them; two men in right foreground, just inside small park bordered with wrought iron fence; sidewalk reconstruction denoted by temporary wooden along curb; debris and planking below wooden fence; roadway at left with approaching two-horse carriage; elevated rail tracks in background.
  • Date1905
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. On recto: date inscribed: 5.12.1905. Stamped on verso: "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners."
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sidewalks -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fences -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionSubway Construction Photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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 1