About This Item


  • Call NumberSUB_0006
  • Title[Elevated rail tracks on Joralemon Street]
  • SummaryBusy commercial street in Brooklyn Heights showing elevated rail tracks at left, with trolley cars, carriages, and carts under tracks; wooden barricades and construction debris on street in right foreground; former Municpal Building (since destroyed) with Corinthian columns and rusticated base at right; sign for trolley station on girder at left; pedestrians throughout. Inscription on verso: "Camera on north side of Joralemon St. near the contractor's office, looking S.E. & showing Fulton and Joralemon St. planking & obstructions."
  • Date1906
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecyanotypes (photographic prints)photographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On recto: date inscribed: 7-20-1906.
  • SubjectStreets -- New York (State) -- New York ; Streets -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sidewalks -- Maintenance and repair -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroads, Elevated -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- 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