GUSN-189786
The photograph depicts the coal barge General McClellan being unloaded at a Boston coal pocket. Men stand on the dock. The ship's stern is decorated with an eagle and the crest of the United States.
coal
barges (flat-bottomed watercraft)
transport vessels
laborers
transportation
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
1 photograph
PC015
Boston & Albany Railroad Company photographic collection, 1890s-c. 1920
PC015.01.250.01
8 x 5 (HxW)(inches)
East Boston (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Boston and Albany Railroad Co.
Eagle
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 110.
Item
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