255 •(NEW YORK CITY--INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT) Album containing 35 exceptional photographs of subway and elevated railway construction projects throughout Manhattan, with stunning scenes of construction above- and underground, as well as modernist views of stations.
Cyanotypes (14), platinum (7), and silver (14) prints, the images measuring 7½x9¼ inches (19.1x23.5 cm.), mounted recto only, each with a date, inventory number, and location in the plate and a brief typewirtten caption affixed to mount recto; also includes 17 fold-out maps and 2 typed letters, one referring to "a sanitary investigation of the subway air." Small folio, ¼ morocco, edgewear. 1902-15

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