1897-1898
HGO-01-001-O-E-104
GUSN-194105
137 5x7 views, including construction of subway near School Street; tunnel at Scollay Square; Boylston Street Station exit; tunnel near Hollis Street; construction work on Section 11, with many buildings indicated, some in snow; Court Street, including both construction and street views, with details of piles; common walls, trenches; Park Street, exteriors of station; construction of Scollay Square Station (exterior) with building views. Date: 9/1/1897 - 6/13/1898
subways
rail transportation structures
rail transportation buildings
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Album Number 18-7
1 photograph album; 11 x 13 1/4 inches
PC009
Photograph albums collection
1974
PC009.018-7
Library & Archives Purchase
Purchase, 1974.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Boston Transit Authority
School Street, Boston
Boylston Street, Boston
Scollay Square, Boston
Hollis Street, Boston
Court Street, Boston
Park Street, Boston
Boston Transit Authority
Item
HGO-01-001-O-E-104
These albums, together with a large number of loose photographs, were purchased by Historic New England (then the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities or SPNEA) in 1974. They appear to have been office copies maintained by the Boston Transit Authority (now the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority or MBTA). The Library of the MBTA holds similar but not always identical photographs. These albums are part of a much larger collection of photographic material related to the construction of the Boston subway system, the first in the United States, which came to SPNEA in 1986. Please see individual album records for more detailed descriptions.
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