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Detail of weighing apparatus on retort charger
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Steam retort charger with weigh scale added
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Weighing apparatus on retort charger
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Tower Washer; : built of ordinary 36 inch cast iron main
5.
Tower washer, from roof of oil house
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Drafting office, Boston Gas Light Company, 24 West Street
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Entrance to Commercial Point Station from Neponset Street
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Old brickwork of boiler-setting : (original contract work)
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Pipe and valve work on boilers
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Rear of boilers
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Rear view of new furnaces; : stack K.
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Resetting general battery of boilers
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Stack K, firing floor replaced and altered to suit the new furnaces; : with coal wagon in place
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Tar collector
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Building stack I; brickwork started
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Buttress work complete; Refilling : from roof of engine house
17.
Buttress work completed; : view from south
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Commercial Point Works, from Dorchester Yacht Club's (Coulter's Wharf)
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Construction of holder no. 2; : "progress" picture
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Construction of holder no. 2 ; : building inner section, in the tank
21.
"Corcoran" house
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"Corcoran" house, from South Street toward Neponset Street
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Drawing machine on its way to round-house
24.
End of retort house, before cutting out doors for machines
25.
Excavation; : from dump
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Excavation; : from roof of engine-house
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Holder no. 2, completed; : from Washington Street
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Locometer gearing on transfer car
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The machine by itself
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North corner of retort house : the fast one to be put in of four water elevators carrying coke to furnaces
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"Progress" picture
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"Progress" picture, showing no. 2 completed; : view across Pleasant and Washington Streets
33.
Repairs on holder tanks; : siphon drawing from no. 2
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Repairs on tank no. 1; : outer section slung to the columns
35.
Residential buildings, industrial buildings and gasholders at Commercial Point
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Round-house etc
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Round-house, track, and car with locomotive gearing added for drawing and charging machines
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To show some new picket fences
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Two holders, from naphtha-tank gallery, south of centre of retort house
40.
View from coal conveyor track
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View of street, fence and gates
42.
A winter view
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Changing retorts by hand
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Safety machine; : a light check-valve between the exhauster and condenser, with blow-off through roof of house
45.
Bay State Company's Works, from sewer embankment
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From sewer embankment
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From street approach to pumping station
48.
Gas holder tanks and columns, Bay State Gas Company
49.
Improved sewerage pumping station
50.
Main building : Bay State Gas Works
51.
Pumping Station buildings from Gas Company's side of dock
52.
Sludge tank; : gas-works in distance
53.
Auxiliary collecting tanks for tar; : J. Cuddihy holding rod
54.
Auxiliary tanks for ammoniacal liquor
55.
Beginning walls of brick porch; : showing whole south end of retort house
56.
Beginning walls of brick porch to keep wind out of retort house while machine doors are open
57.
Boring tar deposit out of standpipes
58.
Building stack I; : masons begin brickwork
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Buttress construction complete : employees begin refilling
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Buttress work complete; refilling : employees at rest
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Coke on hand at beginning of year
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Construction of holder no. 2; : raising column II.
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Construction of holder no. 2; : raising column
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Construction of holder no. 2; : raising column I.
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Construction of holder no. 2; : raising the first column
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Drawing machine on elevated track
67.
Entering the round-house; : gearing is not yet on the car
68.
Filling coke-wagon for stack K with Dennis Carney
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Filling coke-wagon for stack K with McGillis
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Framing of inner section of gasholder
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Framing of inner section; outer section begun, on staging set of wall of tank
72.
Holder no. 2, completed; : from Plymouth Street
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Holder yard at Federal Street, Boston
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Laborers setting tank; : Jim Maguire on far left
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Laborers setting tank using derrick
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Mason working on gasholder at Commercial Point Station
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Raising column III.
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Raising column IV.
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Schooners at Commercial Point
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Setting tanks
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457 Broadway; 2:13 P.M
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Across Dorchester Bay from Commercial Point
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Air slits AA and smoke flues BB.
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Ash pan cover and door frame from rear of stack, i.e. front of furnace
85.
Ash pan set and one flue partly covered
86.
Ash pan set at Fire No. 1, bed partly prepared at No. 2
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Ashpan; : also shows one flue entering main flue
88.
Ashpan and connections
89.
At rail 1 and 30 feet from centre of mound, looking toward rail 11
90.
Auxiliary collecting tank for tar, from south end
91.
Barque Warwick Creek : a "one o'clock tide" from path to railroad station
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Barque Warwick Creek : a "one o'clock tide" from near Mill Street
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Between holder tanks I and II.
94.
Boom and bucket gear
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Boom and bucket gear ; : Hunt's patent coal hoist and automatic railway
96.
Boylston St. Front of Hotel Touraine Looking West 11:40 am
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Boylston St. Front of Hotel Touraine Looking West 12:40 PM.
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Brackets for retorts in wall of arch
99.
Building at retaining wall construction site
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Building of the Commercial Point Boat and Reading Club : within the yard of the gas-works
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