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Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs
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Voice of the press on the New York Arcade Railway, 115 Broadway. 1886.
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Album of photographs depicting the construction of the Broadway line, New York City Subway.
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Illustrated description of the Broadway underground railway, with explanatory details and engravings of the atmospheric machinery, pneumatic passenger-car, pneumatic postal dispatch, underground tunneling machine, etc.
9
Interborough rapid transit; the New York subway, its construction and equipment.
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Album of photographs showing construction of the cable road on Broadway, New York City, in 1891.
56
Photographs of the Catskill water supply system in process of construction.
310
Photographs of the construction of the Holland Tunnel, 1919-1927.
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Report of a special commission designated by the Senate to ascertain the best means for the transportation of passengers in the city of New York. Albany, January 31, 1867.
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Subways
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Railroad construction & maintenance
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Railroads, Cable
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Street-railroads
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Railroad facilities
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Interborough Rapid Transit Company
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Gray, William, active approximately 1890-1900
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Langill, C. C
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Grace Church (New York, N.Y.)
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Interborough rapid transit: the New York subway, its construction and equipment
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Album of photographs showing construction of the cable road on Broadway, New York City, in 1891
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New York
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New York (State)
151
Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
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New York (N.Y.)
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Union Square (New York, N.Y.)
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Illustrations
88
Photographs
58
Diagrams
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Title pages
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Maps
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New York Interborough Rapid Transit Company
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Rare Book Division
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Wallach Division: Photography Collection
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still image
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text
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cartographic
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1,500 K. W. rotary converter;…
10 St.
14 St.
14 St.
14 St.
14 St.
14 St.
14 St.
18th St.
200 H. P. railway motor
23 St.
23 St.
23rd St., looking west.
28th Street Station.
33rd Street.
34th Street and Park Avenue, …
45 St.
45 St.
45 St.
5,000 K. W. alternator - main…
58th Street power house - gen…
7th Street.
Album of photographs showing …
Apparatus under composite mot…
Apparatus under steel motor c…
Assembling iron work on Ponto…
Assembly of contact rail and …
Barclay St.
Barclay St.
Broadway at 18th Street, with…
Broadway, at 33rd Street.
Broadway, at 43rd Street.
Broadway, at about 45th Stree…
Broadway, looking north towar…
Broadway.
Broadway.
Canal St.
Canal St.
Catharine [i.e. Catherine] La…
City Hall Station.
Coal unloading tower on west …
Columns of Hotel Belmont, pas…
Completed arch at Manhattan s…
Concrete sewer back of side w…
Construction of Fort George T…
Contact rail bands; direct cu…
Contact rails, showing end in…
Contact shoe and fuse.
Converter floor plan, sub-sta…
Courtlant [i.e. Cortlandt] St.