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17 photos tagged groundbreaking, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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• subway
• libraryofcongress
• nycsubway
• newyorkcitysubway
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• nyc
• july311911
• shovel
• ground
• newyorkcity
• osgoodehall
• osgoodehalllawschool
• law
• toronto
• lawyers
• new
• hat
• architecture
• crowd
• july
• celebration
• 1910s
• glassnegative
• boater

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• Mennonite Church USA Archives 7 photos
• The Library of Congress 4 photos
• NASA on The Commons 2 photos
• Archives of the Law Society of Ontario 2 photos
• Navy Medicine 1 photo
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo

Conversations

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McAneny - Prendergast - Milo, breaking ground for Subway (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Randy Reiss said:

  George McAneny was a borough president, William A. Prendergast was Controller.

• Wystan said:

  More Bain/LOC photos of the New York City groundbreaking ceremony for a new subway, July 31, 1911:

Judge McCall breaks ground for subway, 10/13/14 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• bior said:

  Edward E. McCall was supported by the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40B12FD395B13...

• Art Siegel said:

  He was head of the New York Public Service Commission, which had jurisdiction over the subways, at this time.

First earth from Lexington Ave. subway, D. McManus & T. Stack, chief engineer (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Dave Conner said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Police History, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

• Dave Conner said:

  Thanks for adding this to the Police History Group -- Seen in Police History (?)

• Wystan said:

  More Bain/LOC photos of the New York City groundbreaking ceremony for a new subway, July 31, 1911:

• Richard Norton said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRT_Lexington_Avenue_Line

Breaking grnd. for New Subway (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Wystan said:

  More Bain/LOC photos of the roundbreaking ceremony for new subway, New York City, July 31, 1911: