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(NEW YORK CITY -- SUBWAY CONSTRUCTION.) Pierre Pullis. Group of 17 photographs by the chief photographerfor New York City's Rapid Transit R.R. Commission. Silver prints, each measuring approximately 7½x9½ inches and with an inventory number, site location, and date printed in the negative; generally fine. New York, 1915
Remarkable archive of prints documenting the disastrous collapse of street-level planking above the subway tunnel excavation on 7th Avenue between 24th and 25th streets on September 22nd, 1915, which left 7 people dead and dozens injured.
The wreckage of twisted steel and massive wooden beams progressively rebuilds throughout the quasi-photojournalistic record preserved here, dated between September 22nd and October 1st, 1915.
