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Large - Geo - Massachusetts - East Boston - Modern - Thomson & Thomson - Unmounted
GUSN-195003
Row houses crowd together on Lexington Street in East Boston, Massachusetts. Trees lining the sidewalks almost form a canopy over the cobblestone roadway. A trolley car with the sign "Tunnel" and an advertisement for the Boston Pops travels along the street. On December 30, 1904, the Boston Elevated Railway Company opened the East Boston Tunnel, the first underwater subway tunnel in the United States, to connect Maverick Square and downtown Boston.
row houses
public transit
trolley cars
tracks (transit system elements)
telephone poles
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000228
AccessID 314
Other identifier HNEDID-000228
1 photograph
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0030.001
1904-1910s
East Boston (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Thomson & Thomson (Boston, Mass.) (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Boston Pops Orchestra
Boston Elevated Railway Company
East Boston Tunnel (Boston, Mass.)
Lexington Street (East Boston, Boston, Mass.)
overhead electric lines
Item
Large - Geo - Massachusetts - East Boston - Modern - Thomson & Thomson - Unmounted
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