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Historic American Engineering Record - The Interborough Subway

View of the fare control area at 110th Street/Central Park North on the IRT Lenox Line. Photo by David Sagarin for the Historical American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

The New York Rapid Transit Decision of 1900: Economy, Society, Politics, by Wallace B. Katz.

The Impact of the IRT on New York City, by Clifton Hood.

Design and Construction of the IRT: Civil Engineering, by Charles Scott.

Design and Construction of the IRT: Electrical Engineering, by Barbara Kimmelman.

Architectural Designs For New York's First Subway, by David J. Framberger.

Images, by David Sagarin. (72 images)

Historic American Engineering Record
National Park Service
Department of the Interior
Washington, DC. 20240

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