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1886
Special Photos: Geographic / Mass. / Roxbury / Stony Brook Flood
GUSN-196531
Stony Brook flooded the Ruggles Street neighborhood of Roxbury, Massachusetts with as much as three feet of water in mid-February of 1886. According to contemporary accounts, melting snow and heavy rains overwhelmed the sewer system. Men wade through the flood waters, and one man stands on a streetlight. Many wear thigh boots. One man stands in a rowboat in front of the Cordingley Junk Store at 129 Ruggles Street.
row houses
carpenters
floods (natural events)
street lighting luminaires
pulling boats
thigh boots
footwear
events
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 001501
AccessID 2331
Other identifier HNEDID-001501
1 photograph
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.03.TMP.049
February 1886
Stony Brook (Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [stream]
Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Cordingley, Albert
Cordingley, Frank
Jackson, James
junk trade
Ruggles Street (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Item
Special Photos: Geographic / Mass. / Roxbury / Stony Brook Flood
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