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1900-1902
GUSN-194096
This album dates from Mar. 22, 1900, to June 28, 1902, and it includes approximately one hundred twenty-five 5 x 7 inch and 8 x 10 inch photographs of tunnel construction; Shawmut Avenue near Pleasant Street, with machinery; construction workers; shafts; Commercial Street; Atlantic Avenue, including street activity and wagons; lower State Street (otherwise under-documented in our collections); Lewis Street; Washington and Hanover Streets; the Custom House (before the addition of the tower); the Old State House; and detailed views of the Ames Building from various angles. This album has some of the richest coverage of architecture in the series of albums.
subways
rail transportation structures
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Album Number 18-3
1 photograph album
PC009
Photograph albums collection
1974
PC009.018-3
Library & Archives Purchase
Purchase, 1974.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Boston Transit Authority
Shawnut Avenue
Commercial Street
Old State house
Custom House
Boston
Boston Transit Authority
State Street
Ames Building
Item
These albums, together with a large number of loose photographs, were purchased by Historic New England (then the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities or SPNEA) in 1974. They appear to have been office copies maintained by the Boston Transit Authority (now the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority or MBTA). The Library of the MBTA holds similar but not always identical photographs. These albums are part of a much larger collection of photographic material related to the construction of the Boston subway system, the first in the United States, which came to SPNEA in 1986. Please see individual album records for more detailed descriptions.
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