End of retort house, before cutting out doors for machines

Item Information

Title:
End of retort house, before cutting out doors for machines
Description:
View of retort house; horse-drawn wagon from the Maverick Oil Company discharging into buried tank at Commercial Point Station.
Contributor:
Boston Gas Light Company
Date:
August 30, 1888
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Boston College
Collection (local):
Boston Gas Company
Subjects:
Gas companies--Massachusetts--Boston
Horse-drawn vehicles--Massachusetts--Boston
Horses--Massachusetts--Boston
Industrial buildings--Massachusetts--Boston
Tanks--Massachusetts--Boston
Boston Gas Light Company
Maverick Oil Company (Boston, Mass.)
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/2345/9140
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 17 x 21 cm., on sheet 19 x 34 cm.) found in Box 40, Folder 9. Original image not held by Boston College.
Written on sheet: "Naphtha wagon is discharging into buried tank."
Identifier:
2345/9140
81488931740001021
99137906057301021