NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY CONSTRUCTION, 1912-1915.


Collection of 38 photographs documenting construction of the New York City Subway lines, 8 x 10 inch gelatin silver prints, most with descriptions tipped to the front, stamped (primarily "Public Service Commission for the First District") to the verso, many with two holes punched in the margin of image.EARLY ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY. The majority of the photographs consist of images of support beams above and below ground level, pipelines, cement structures, ventilation chambers, rock faces, and underplanning. A few include men at work below street level and one is of two businessmen and a construction worker posing in the center line. Another is a view of a tunnel with rock formations on the right, pipelines and cemented walls on the left, and an inspector under a string of construction lighting.