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Across Dorchester Bay from Commercial Point
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Building of the Commercial Point Boat and Reading Club : within the yard of the gas-works
3.
Changing retorts by hand
4.
Looking northwesterly up the yard
5.
North corner of retort house : the fast one to be put in of four water elevators carrying coke to furnaces
6.
Pipe bridge across Barque Warwick Creek; : view of pipes
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Residential buildings, industrial buildings and gasholders at Commercial Point
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View of coachman's Irish Setter
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A winter view
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Blackstone Street, Boston
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Blackstone Street, Boston
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Blackstone Street, Boston
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Charles D. Lamson; : Superintendent Boston Gas Light Company
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Bulkhead built to hold soft filling in Dorchester Bay; : Peninsula of Savin Hill in distance
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View from coal conveyor track
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Backing up
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Boom and bucket gear
18.
Boom and bucket gear ; : Hunt's patent coal hoist and automatic railway
19.
Construction of holder no. 2; : siphon (used for a shock lift) and boiler for pumps
20.
Construction of holder no. 2; : raising column II.
21.
Construction of holder no. 2; : framing of inner section
22.
Construction of holder no. 2; : raising column
23.
Construction of holder no. 2; : pump set in tank
24.
Construction of holder no. 2; : raising column I.
25.
Construction of holder no. 2; : framing of inner section
26.
Construction of holder no. 2; : building inner section, in the tank
27.
Construction of holder no. 2; : raising the first column
28.
Construction of holder no. 2 ; : building inner section, in the tank
29.
The crack, a day or two after
30.
Delivery of drainage from tanks
31.
Dumping coke
32.
Employees in front of gasholder
33.
Finish of the 4-oar rowing race; : showing that the official photographer ought to be in the judge's boat
34.
Framing of inner section of gasholder
35.
Framing of inner section; outer section begun, on staging set of wall of tank
36.
Heating tar for concrete sidewalk; J. Henry Goodwin boss carpenter and Jason Pillsbury boss mason
37.
Holder no. 1; : Mr. Lawson's arrangement to hold outer section while lifted for repairs to tank
38.
Holder no. 2, completed; : from Washington Street
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Holder no. 2, completed; : from Plymouth Street
40.
Holland Oates; : boss painter
41.
Loading coke for Havana
42.
"Progress" picture
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"Progress" picture : also shows steam supply from boiler house to pump in No. 1
44.
Pump delivery
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Pump delivery supervised by Clark
46.
Pump delivery with T. F. R.'s pump foreman, Clark
47.
Raising column : the rope swing
48.
Raising column III.
49.
Raising column IV.
50.
Relief valve
51.
Repairs on holder tank no. 1 : Outer section of holder lifted from its bearing
52.
Repairs on tank no. 1; : outer section slung to the columns
53.
Sailing race
54.
Steamer of the U.S. buoy service : passing the Gas Co.'s wharf
55.
Supper after the regatta
56.
Tar team
57.
A veteran of the U.S. Army
58.
A week after the Regatta
59.
"Progress" picture, showing no. 2 completed; : view across Pleasant and Washington Streets
60.
Loading coke for Havana
61.
Loading coke onto ship
62.
Loading coke onto ship; : view of Dorchester Bay in background
63.
Bay State Company's Works, from sewer embankment
64.
Bay State Gas Company; : unloading boilers
65.
Bay State Gas Company's Holders : embankment and piling across marsh for 24 cm. pipes
66.
Conduit embankment and gatehouse
67.
Conduit embankment and pumping station, looking toward Dorchester
68.
Employee excavating outside of gas tank at Commercial Point Station
69.
Excavating outside tank I to buttress the cracked wall
70.
From sewer embankment
71.
From street approach to pumping station
72.
Gas holder tanks and columns, Bay State Gas Company
73.
Looking down conduit embankment called "Old Harbor Pier"
74.
Main building : Bay State Gas Works
75.
Mason working on gasholder at Commercial Point Station
76.
Neponset; from east of carpenter shop
77.
Old brickwork of boiler-setting : (original contract work)
78.
Pumping Station buildings from Gas Company's side of dock
79.
Pumping station from land side at Calf Pasture
80.
Safety machine; : a light check-valve between the exhauster and condenser, with blow-off through roof of house
81.
Sailing race
82.
Schooner Lambert, just unloaded; capacity 2500 tons coal
83.
Sewer work at Glover's Corner
84.
Sludge tank; : gas-works in distance
85.
South Boston City Pier; Fort Independence; D.S. Lewis
86.
Start of 4-oar rowing race
87.
Thomas Mahan : temporary rodman
88.
Coke on hand at beginning of year
89.
Coke on hand at beginning of year at Commercial Point Station
90.
Improved sewerage pumping station
91.
Repairs on holder tanks; : siphon drawing from no. 2
92.
Elevated hoisting engine on coal wharf; : one of four; they take steam from the boiler house
93.
Elevated hoisting engine on coal wharf; : one of four; they take steam from the boiler house
94.
Pump delivering from tank I.
95.
Rear of boilers
96.
Resetting general battery of boilers
97.
Between holder tanks I and II.
98.
Pumping from holder tank no. 1
99.
Pumping machinery inside of gas tank at Commercial Point Station
100.
Tower Washer; : built of ordinary 36 inch cast iron main
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