South Boston City Pier; Fort Independence; D.S. Lewis

Item Information

Title:
South Boston City Pier; Fort Independence; D.S. Lewis
Description:
At Calf Pasture, photographer looking across Dorchester Bay at South Boston City Pier; embankment known as Old Harbor Pier.
Creator:
Means, W. K
Contributor:
Boston Gas Light Company
Date:
[1887]
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Boston College
Collection (local):
Boston Gas Company
Subjects:
Bays--Massachusetts--Boston
Gas companies--Employees--Massachusetts--Boston
Photographers--Massachusetts--Boston
Boston Gas Light Company
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Dorchester
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > South Boston
Calf Pasture (Boston, Mass.)
Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Dorchester Bay (Mass.)
Fort Independence (Mass.)
Old Harbor Pier (Mass.)
South Boston (Boston, Mass.)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 image)
Link to Item:
https://hdl.handle.net/2345/9006
Terms of Use:
This photograph from the Boston Gas Company Records is in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Boston Gas Company Records as a source for borrowed images is requested.
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Notes:
Forms part of the Boston Gas Company Records. Original photographic print (cyanotype ; image 9 x 12 cm., on sheet 34 x 21 cm.) found in Box 40, Folder 3. Original image not held by Boston College.
Written on sheet: "First works built here, 1634: called the oldest virgin fortress in the world."
Notes (date):
[1887 February 16]
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
2345/9006
81488931740001021
99137906055601021