Being a photographer is a difficult job. You’d have to go to uncomfortable places and shoot at inconvenient angles just to capture the perfect shot. This was the same experience that the brothers Pierre and Granville Pullis had when Pierre was tasked to document the building of the first underground transit line in New York City.
Along with his slightly younger brother, Granville, Pierre took tens of thousands of photographs of stations, equipment, construction sites, and the people who built the stations, as well as the pedestrians who would eventually wedge themselves onto the trains.
See the photos and know more about their story over at Atlas Obscura.
(Image Credit: Granville W. Pullis/ Lundin Collection/ Courtesy New York Transit Museum/ Atlas Obscura)