Box SC Photo 0005.02

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No caption, no date, black and white photo 7 ⅜ x 9 ¼” (Left quarter of photo is clear but other three quarters is mottled sepia, building on left has sign AUDUBON BEACH fronted by double railroad track one track with railroad car visible going under a track crossover, remaining photo is of construction cutting through stony embankment)

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Looking North, (same as previous photo except railroad car is not on track but white inked information Established grade of 151st St., 20’, left crossover masonry support is marked in white ink 13’ and in upper left corner is A² and right support is marked in white ink 8’)

Scope and Contents #4775-3 11-29-35 From 150th St., and River Ave., lkg, N. General Contractor Geo. F. Driscoll Co. is typed on back, black and white photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on ivory linen (Also on back is purple stamp Photograph by Albert Rothschild New York City When reproducing this photograph kindly credit Albert Rothschild, linen backing has faint stamp ~Specializing in ~ Motion Pictures, Construction, Industrial, Marine at lower left corner) (Photo image is of a construction site with pile driver in...

Scope and Contents #4775-2 11-29-35 From Cromwell Ave., Bet., 150th & 151st St., lkg East General Contractor Geo. F. Driscoll Co. is typed on back, black and white photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” mounted on ivory linen (Also on back is purple stamp: Photograph by Albert Rothschild New York City When reproducing this photograph kindly credit Albert Rothschild) Photo image is of a construction site with pile driver on right side, many sections of reinforcing rods visible, piles of soil, and apartment buildings in...

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Sprinkling Hot Tar Aug. 12th 1911 447, black and white photo 7 ½”x 9 1/2” ( At left group of four boys in front of two turreted three story house watching four men operating a tar machine and roller)

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Spreading Sand on Roadway after Application of Bitumenous [i.e. bituminous] Material. August 12th 1911 448, black and white photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” (Group of men in center of photo, one standing apart in dark suit and straw hat, seven men around pile of sand, in background church with steeple topped with arrow weathervane and round roof with cupola next to steeple, light standards along roadway)

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Finished Roadway – Tared [i.e. tarred] & Sanded. August 12th 1911. 449, black and white photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” (Broad expanse of roadway with light standards at left and grassy area at right, horse and buggy in distance, pin holes in corners, on back is handwritten in pencil Finished Roadway After Application of Bitumunous [i.e. bituminous] Material & Sand)

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Finished Roadway – Tared [i.e. tarred] & Sanded. Aug. 12th 1911 450 printed at lower right corner, 173 st Concourse 1911 in upper left corner, black and white photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” (Broad expanse of roadway, on left is grassy flat area with tree line and houses, light standards along roadway, at right is house on a hill)

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Sewer Across Property of N.Y.W. & B.R.R. Co. #2629 Fr. A pt. in Bronx Park, 15’ W. of open cut, looking E. toward portal of tunnel August 11th 1916 658, black and white photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” (Wooden formwork beneath rough shingle embankment, two men standing in embankment cut looking at camera behind the formwork)

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Sewer Across Property of N.Y.W. & B.R.R. Co. #2629 A Inside of Tunnel near center, looking East Aug. 11th 1916 659, black and white photo 7 ½”x 9 ½” (Two men standing beneath roof quoins, one wearing a dark suit and straw hat, one man covered in muck, a third man crouched beneath roof, light flash reflected off beam supports)