Boom and bucket gear ; : Hunt's patent coal hoist and automatic railway

Item Information

Title:
Boom and bucket gear ; : Hunt's patent coal hoist and automatic railway
Description:
View of coal hoisting machine at Commercial Point Station; Dorchester Bay in background.
Contributor:
Boston Gas Light Company
Date:
[1886?]
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Boston College
Collection (local):
Boston Gas Company
Subjects:
Bays--Massachusetts--Boston
Gas companies--Massachusetts--Boston
Hoisting machinery--Massachusetts--Boston
Boston Gas Light Company
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Dorchester
Commercial Point (Boston, Mass.)
Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Dorchester Bay (Mass.)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 image)
Link to Item:
https://hdl.handle.net/2345/9067
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 25 x 15 cm., on sheet 34 x 21 cm.) found in Box 40, Folder 2. Original image not held by Boston College.
Written on sheet: "The lower car is on a platform scale, connected by levers with the weigh-house on the next tower."
Identifier:
2345/9067
81488931740001021
99137906083001021