Embedded Resource
Description
The scene is an excavation pit at an unidentified New York City construction site. A crew of six men can be seen shoveling dirt into a four-wheeled wooden cart. Then a full cart is slowly lifted out of the pit to street level by a steam-powered crane. These carts are similar in design to those shown dumping trash at the end of the film New York City Dumping Wharf. Advertisements and campaign posters can be seen on the exposed wall of the building in the background. The population of New York City was 3,437,202 in 1900 and had grown to 8,175,133 in 2010.
Source-Dependent Questions
- Is New York, New York, an urban area or a rural area? Use evidence from the video to support your answer.
- Compare and contrast this construction image to the Eclipse Lumber Company, Main Street construction in Shenandoah and construction at Mercy Hospital images. How is this construction site the same and how is it different?
Citation Information
Weed, A. E., "Excavating for a New York Foundation," 1903. Courtesy of Library of Congress