Elevated hoisting engine on coal wharf; : one of four; they take steam from the boiler house

Item Information

Title:
Elevated hoisting engine on coal wharf; : one of four; they take steam from the boiler house
Description:
Employee standing next to elevated hoisting engine on coal wharf at Commercial Point Station.
Contributor:
Boston Gas Light Company
Date:
May 26, 1887
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Boston College
Collection (local):
Boston Gas Company
Subjects:
Gas companies--Employees--Massachusetts--Boston
Hoisting machinery--Massachusetts--Boston
Steam-engines--Massachusetts--Boston
Wharves--Massachusetts--Boston
Boston Gas Light Company
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Dorchester
Commercial Point (Boston, Mass.)
Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 image)
Link to Item:
https://hdl.handle.net/2345/9266
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 15 x 20 cm., on sheet 34 x 21 cm.) found in Box 40, Folder 4. Original image not held by Boston College.
Identifier:
2345/9266
81488931740001021
99137906027901021