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101.
Buttresses, arches and cenlies, from west side
102.
Castle St. Looking East from Albion St., 10:26 A.M
103.
City sewer work at Glover's corner; : truss supporting 24 inch gas main
104.
Commercial Point Station Machine Shop
105.
Construction site on Newbury Street and West Chester Park
106.
"Corcoran" house from window of the next house south
107.
Corner of C & Tudor Streets; looking North, 11:10 A.M
108.
Corner of C and Tudor Streets, Looking east, 11:10 A.M
109.
Corner of C Street; 2:33 P.M
110.
Corner of Cambridge and Charles Streets, Looking North 12:05 PM.
111.
Corner of Cambridge and Charles Sts, Look North, 11:40 A.M
112.
Corner of Charles and Cambridge Sts., 11:35 A.M
113.
Corner of Friend and Washington Streets; 12:50 P.M
114.
Corner of Milk and Pearl Streets, Looking South, 1:55 P.M
115.
Corner of Tremont and Common Streets, 11:18 A.M
116.
Corner of Washington and Friend Streets; 12:45 P.M
117.
Cornerstone in trench
118.
Detail of steam Coke-drawing Machine
119.
Detail of weighing apparatus on retort charger
120.
Drafting office, Boston Gas Light Company, 24 West Street
121.
Dumping coke
122.
Entrance to Commercial Point Station from Neponset Street
123.
Excavation for buttresses
124.
Excavation, to put in buttresses
125.
First two buttresses and relieving arch, full height
126.
First two buttresses and relieving arch, full height, from northeast corner
127.
Flues and furnace top
128.
Flues with perforated tile
129.
From mound near centre, at rail 3-1/2
130.
Front 16 Tileston Street, 9:35 A.M
131.
Front 290 Cambridge St. - 11:27 A.M
132.
Front 39 Tremont Street; looking south, 4:10 P.M
133.
Front of Houghton Dutton Building, looking North; 4:23 P.M
134.
Furnace construction; : second furnace
135.
Furnace construction work; : 4th and 3rd furnaces
136.
Furnace construction work with machinery in background
137.
Furnace doors, stack K.
138.
Furnaces behind stack I; : flues under ashpan
139.
Gas pipe at construction site
140.
Head Place, looking south, 7:30 A.M
141.
Holder no. 1; : Mr. Lawson's arrangement to hold outer section while lifted for repairs to tank
142.
Holland Oates; : boss painter
143.
Inside retort arch; : flues, before covering with tiles
144.
Junction of Causeway and Merrimack Streets, Looking North, 2:17 P.M
145.
Loading coke for Havana
146.
Loading coke for Havana
147.
Loading coke onto ship; : view of Dorchester Bay in background
148.
Looking down into firebox
149.
Lower retort with setting under it, rear view
150.
Munich setting, stack K : rear furnaces, first course of back draft passages
151.
New masonry for outside wall of gas holder at Commercial Point Station
152.
Old brickwork of boiler-setting : (original contract work)
153.
One retort and setting
154.
Open-end retort set; from rear
155.
Opposite rail 11, 35 feet from centre; to show end of work, rail 21-22
156.
Opposite small pump at rail 21(?) looking toward rail 14
157.
Pipe and valve work on boilers
158.
Pipe bridge across Barque Warwick Creek
159.
Pipe bridge across Barque Warwick Creek; : view of pipes
160.
Pit, with buttresses and relieving arch just above 6th offset from top of tank; : seen from northwest corner
161.
"Progress" picture : also shows steam supply from boiler house to pump in No. 1
162.
Pump delivering from tank I.
163.
Pumping machinery inside of gas tank at Commercial Point Station
164.
Ready for middle (open-back) retort
165.
Ready for retorts
166.
Rear of boilers
167.
Rear of stack I.
168.
Rear view of new furnaces; : stack K.
169.
Regenerating flues started 3 courses above back of main flue, also slant flues at back of ashpan
170.
Reinforcing bottom of tank I, with brick, stone slabs and concrete : looking from rail 20 toward rail 11
171.
Reinforcing bottom of tank I, with brick, stone slabs and concrete : from rail 12 toward pump at rail 23
172.
Repairs on holder tank no. 1 : Outer section of holder lifted from its bearing
173.
Resetting general battery of boilers
174.
Retaining wall construction site
175.
Retorts all set
176.
Rotary exhauster and steam-jet exhauster
177.
Saddles set on retorts
178.
Schooner Lambert
179.
Schooner Lambert, view from shore
180.
Second pit of excavation; : shows suction pipe to pump in first bay
181.
Section 4 of the drawings
182.
Section 7 on drawing; : shows lintel tile "34" and iron damper
183.
Section eight of drawing; : first course of regenerating air-passages
184.
Sewer work at Glover's Corner
185.
Showing channel reserved for landing the holder; : looking east
186.
Showing channel reserved for landing the holder, further west; : looking east
187.
Small pump and outside of wall limiting concrete, at rail 20
188.
Space between the two tanks; : looking toward Plymouth Street
189.
Stack K, firing floor replaced and altered to suit the new furnaces; : with coal wagon in place
190.
Steam retort charger with weigh scale added
191.
Steel belt on tank I with plate joined for II.
192.
Street corner; Chapman Place and School Street
193.
Suction pipe in third bay
194.
Tar collector
195.
Tar collector - : drum at end of hydraulic main
196.
Temporary end of work at rail 19
197.
Tile for Munich setting, stack K; : from stage on coal tower
198.
Tile for Munich setting, stack K; : from west of coal shed
199.
Tile which show the beginning of delivery of air into furnace flue
200.
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