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1907
GUSN-194099
This album is inscribed "Photographs made in connection with investigation of congestion of traffic, etc." It includes approximately forty-five 3 x 5 inch views of Central Wharf; South Market Street; Blackstone Street; North Market Street; Dock Square; Exchange Street; Faneuil Hall Square; Union Street; and Commercial Street, with views of market wagons and commercial activities. Also included with this album were seven loose photographs of elevation drawings of Central Square Station in Cambridge which have been removed to the binder for album 18-6.
subways
rail transportation structures
markets (structures)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Album Number 18-4
1 photograph album
PC009
Photograph albums collection
1974
PC009.018-4
Library & Archives Purchase
Purchase, 1974.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Boston Transit Authority
Boston
markets
market wagons
Central Wharf, Boston, MA
South Market Street, Boston, MA
Blackstone Street, Boston, MA
North Market Street, Boston, MA
Faneuil Hall
Commercial Street, Boston, MA
Dock Square, Boston, MA
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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