New York Subway, 1905
New York Subway, 1905
Interior N.Y. Subway, 14th St. to 42nd St., 1905, the first year of the subway's existence. Very good traveling shots of tunnel interiors and subway station platforms, subjective POV front of train following another train on the same track from 14th Street to 42nd Street. Nice endless repeating patterns of tunnel beams, of light and shadow. (The lighting is coming from another car travelling on a parallel track.) Stop and go travel, picking up and dropping off passengers at subway platforms. When we arrive at Grand Central Station there is a good view of men running toward the train, men and women and children getting off and walking along platform. The people look very typical of the period: men in suits and bowler derby hats (one fellow wearing straw boater), women in long Victorian skirts & hats, boys in knickerbockers, little girl in white skirt, black stockings and wide-brimmed hat.