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Bus and diesel locomotives, Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Mass.

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1965-1975

Location Note

Cheney Transit Negatives

GUSN

GUSN-195789

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Description

Cars, a bus, and a locomotive engine all travel down Atlantic Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. A worker is visible in the foreground. Businesses in the background include Italo-American Fisheries and Fresh Water Fish Co. The bus is bound for Haymarket Square.

Details

Descriptive Terms

automobiles
buses
trains (vehicle groupings)
diesel engines
transportation
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID tra00042
AccessID 1137
Other identifier HNEDID-tra00042

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC017

Collection Name

Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

Reference Code

PC017.02.TMP.050

Date Notes

Previously dated 1949-06-13. Perhaps 1969-06-13?

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other Organizations

Metropolitan Transit Authority (Boston, Mass.)

Subjects

Atlantic Avenue (Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Cheney Transit Negatives

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