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Transit workers digging in front of a building, Lindall Place Boston, Mass., Nov. 11, 1911

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1911-11-11

Location Note

Library and Archives: Boston Transit Commission: Photographic Prints: F21

GUSN

GUSN-190809

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Description

This photograph shows the progress made by transit workers digging in front of a Lindall Place building as part of the construction of the Beacon Hill Tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts.

Details

Descriptive Terms

construction (assembling)
labor
workers
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

Project number HNE0055

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC017

Collection Name

Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

Reference Code

PC017.02.021.002

Image Dimensions

8 1/16 x 10 1/16 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Boston (Mass.). Transit Commission (Agency)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Subjects

African American men
Lindall Place (Boston, Mass.)
Beacon Hill Tunnel (Boston, Mass.)

Accruals Note

Included in the Boston African Americana Project.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Library and Archives: Boston Transit Commission: Photographic Prints: F21

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