Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 4 & 38, 1914-1921 (bulk 1914-1915)

The 3,496 Contract Three, Route 4 & 38 photographs show the construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line from Times Square to Chambers Street (the 1 train, 2 train, and 3 train) and from Chambers Street to South Ferry in Manhattan (the 1 train). The route is divided into the following sections: Section 1, Greenwich Street from Battery Park to Vesey Street; Section 2, West Broadway and Vesey Street to Varick Street and Beach Street; Section 3, Varick Street and Beach Street to Seventh Avenue and Commerce Street; Section 4, Seventh Avenue from Commerce Street to West 16th Street; Section 5, Seventh Avenue from West 16th Street to West 30th Street, and West 30th Street from Seventh Avenue to the Hudson; Section 6, Seventh Avenue from West 30th Streeet to around West 43rd Street; and Section 6-A, Seventh Avenue from West 42nd Street to West 44th Street. There are a number of photographs of Pennsylvania Station on Seventh Avenue between West 31st Street and West 33rd Street.