In 1900, contractor Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company embarked on the construction of the New York City subway system. Two brothers Pierre and Granville Pullis were assigned to document the progress of construction. They photographed the subway construction that continued from 1900-1939.

Workers in pump-chamber – The Bronx 1916


9th Street Subway entrance Brooklyn, 1910

Lexington Avenue between 105th and 106th Streets, Manhattan, 1913







