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1926-09-27
BTC Album No. 43: C-1279
GUSN-194943
A group of workers dig a trench for pipes at the intersection of Waldeck Street and Park Street in a residential area of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts in connection with the Dorchest Rapid Transit line. Sawhorses are set around the site, and a truck is parked in the middle of the street. A person rides past on a motorcycle.
pipes (conduits)
trenches
excavation (process)
workers
houses
residential districts
motorcycles
trucks
dwellings
labor
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID tra00001
AccessID 254
Other identifier HNEDID-tra00001
1 photograph
PC017
Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s
PC017.02.TMP.003
Dorchester (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Dorchester Rapid Transit
Boston (Mass.). Transit Commission
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Waldeck Street (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.)
Park Street (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.)
Item
BTC Album No. 43: C-1279
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