Construction of overlook wall at Franklin Park, Jamaica Plain [Roxbury], Mass.

Title:: Construction of overlook wall at Franklin Park, Jamaica Plain [Roxbury], Mass.
Description:: A view of the construction of the wall of the Overlook, a building that combined a scenic viewing platform and changing facilities for people using the fields in the Playstead area of Franklin Park in Boston. Several men operate a derrick. The building was partially constructed of boulders from the Playstead.
Photographer:: Brown, Edmund K.
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Location:: Historic New England
Collection (local):: PC001: General photographic collection
Subjects:: building sites
walls
field houses
overlooks
parks (public recreation areas)
derricks
construction workers
carts
labor
Emerald Necklace (Boston, Mass.)
Franklin Park (Boston, Mass.)
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Roxbury
Extent:: 1 photograph
Link to Item:: http://gusn.us/195356
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