Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Ari Bousbib trolley photographs
Mostly black-and-white and some color photographs of various sizes depicting revenue and work trolley cars used by New York City streetcar companies in the early-to-mid 20th century, as well as a sparse selection of ephemera deriving from the preservation of certain cars.
Elevated railroad photographs
Photographs of elevated railroad services and structures, dating from the era of their construction to that of their retirement and demolition.
Eugene Casey tunneling collection
The Eugene Casey tunneling collection contains documents reflecting the history of tunneling in North America and around the world. Materials include documents describing tunneling methods and construction, early subway construction photographs, the building of the 63rd Street Tunnel, over 100 photographs documenting the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Tube, and records relating to the construction of the Holland Tunnel, including signed reports by Clifford Milburn Holland.
Harvey Mordetsky collection
Photographic prints showing trolleys in the New York metropolitan area, as operated by New York Railways and the Third Avenue Railway System in Manhattan and the Bronx, and various Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island trolleys lines, as well as slides and films of trolleys in other cities and countries, and related ephemera, including tickets, transfers, and publications.
Jay Street drawings and prints
The Jay Street drawings and prints contains technical and engineering drawings documenting the construction, rehabilitation, maintenance, and power infrastructure of New York City’s surface transit, elevated railroad, and subway facilities and services from the 1880s through the 1970s.
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- Black-and-white photographs 3
- Electric railroads 3
- Elevated railroads 3
- Street-railroads--Design and construction 3
- Black-and-white slides 2
- Color photographs 2
- Horse-drawn omnibuses–New York (State)–New York 2
- Railroad tunnels–Design and construction 2
- Street railroads--Cars 2
- Black-and-white negatives 1
- Color slides 1
- Construction drawings 1
- Documentary photographs 1
- Horse cars 1
- Horse-drawn vehicles 1
- Photographic prints 1
- Railroad cars 1
- Railroad engineering–Charts, diagrams, etc. 1
- Railroad passenger cars 1
- Railroad stations–Design and construction 1
- Railroads--New York (State)--New York. 1
- Reports 1
- Steam locomotives 1
- Street railroads 1
- Street-railroads--Equipment and supplies 1
- Subways--New York (State)--New York--Design and construction 1
- Technical drawings 1
- Tickets 1
- Transportation maps 1
- Trolley buses—Electric equipment 1
- Trolley cars 1
- Tunneling–New York (State)–New York–History–20th Century 1
- Tunnels 1
- Underwater tunnels 1 + ∧ less