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ca. 1914
GUSN-194103
This album includes approximately fourteen 5 x 7 inch photographs of subway entrances, including Boylston Street seen from the burial ground on Boston Common; Tremont Street; Central Square in Cambridge; the Revere House, Bowdoin Square (hotel); Dover Street; and two unidentified subway entrances, possibly in Paris. This album also includes seven photographs of elevation drawings (no architect cited) of Central Square Station in Cambridge originally found loose in album 18-4.
subways
rail transportation buildings
rail transportation structures
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Album Number 18-6
1 photograph album
PC009
Photograph albums collection
1974
PC009.018-6
Library & Archives Purchase
Purchase, 1974.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Boston Transit Authority
Boston Transit Authority
Subways
Subway entrances
Boston, MA
Cambridge, MA
Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Central Square,Cambridge, MA
Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Revere House
Bowdoin Square
Dover Street, 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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