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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.
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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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Photographs of the Catskill water supply system in process of construction.
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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 facilities
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Railroad construction and maintenance
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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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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 (State)
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Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
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Illustrations
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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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1,500 K. W. rotary converter;…
200 H. P. railway motor
28th Street Station.
Album of photographs showing …
Apparatus under composite mot…
Apparatus under steel motor c…
Assembling iron work on Ponto…
Assembly of contact rail and …
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.
Cross section sub-station no.…
Diagrams of direct current fe…
Difficult pipe work - Broadwa…
Ducts in side walls - eight o…
Ducts under passenger station…
Electro-pneumatic interlockin…
End view of motor truck.
End view of steel passenger c…
Erection of arch, Manhattan v…
Exterior of sub-station no. 1…
Exterior view - protected woo…
Exterior view - steel car fra…
Four column (tower) viaduct c…
Four-track subway - showing c…
Front view of block signal po…
Inside wall of tunnel showing…
Interborough rapid transit, t…
Interior view - skeleton fram…
Interior view of 148th Street…
Interior view of protected wo…
Kiosks at Columbus Circle; Br…
Looking up Broadway from Trin…
Main controlling board in pow…
Main line, piping and wiring …
Manholes in side wall of subw…
Metal underframe of protected…
Moving west side wall to wide…
Oil switches - main power sta…
Operating board - sub-station…
Operating gallery in sub-stat…
Operating room showing conden…
Part of bus bar compartments …
Plan of Brooklyn Bridge Stati…