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Air slits AA and smoke flues BB.
2.
Ash pan cover and door frame from rear of stack, i.e. front of furnace
3.
Ash pan set and one flue partly covered
4.
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
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Ashpan and connections
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Brackets for retorts in wall of arch
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Building stack I; brickwork started
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Flues and furnace top
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Flues with perforated tile
11.
Furnace construction; : second furnace
12.
Furnace construction work; : 4th and 3rd furnaces
13.
Furnace construction work with machinery in background
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Furnaces behind stack I; : flues under ashpan
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Looking down into firebox
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Lower retort with setting under it, rear view
17.
Munich setting, stack K : rear furnaces, first course of back draft passages
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One retort and setting
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Open-end retort set; from rear
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Ready for retorts
21.
Rear of stack I.
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Regenerating flues started 3 courses above back of main flue, also slant flues at back of ashpan
23.
Saddles set on retorts
24.
Section 4 of the drawings
25.
Tile which show the beginning of delivery of air into furnace flue
26.
Building stack I; : masons begin brickwork
27.
Domed tops of furnaces, stack I.
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Firebox nearly in
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Furnace construction; : view from above
30.
General view of furnaces; : Fire no. 1 to floor level
31.
Just below the floor of the retort house; : furnace flue and turn of air flues
32.
Inside retort arch; : flues, before covering with tiles
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Ready for middle (open-back) retort
34.
Retorts all set
35.
Between holder tanks I and II.
36.
Buttresses, arches and cenlies, from west side
37.
Furnace doors, stack K.
38.
New masonry for outside wall of gas holder at Commercial Point Station
39.
Old brickwork of boiler-setting : (original contract work)
40.
Rear of boilers
41.
Rear view of new furnaces; : stack K.
42.
Reinforcing bottom of tank I, with brick, stone slabs and concrete : from rail 12 toward pump at rail 23
43.
Section 7 on drawing; : shows lintel tile "34" and iron damper
44.
Section eight of drawing; : first course of regenerating air-passages
45.
Space between the two tanks; : looking toward Plymouth Street
46.
Stack K, firing floor replaced and altered to suit the new furnaces; : with coal wagon in place
47.
Steel belt on tank I with plate joined for II.
48.
Temporary end of work at rail 19
49.
Mason working on gasholder at Commercial Point Station
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457 Broadway; 2:13 P.M
51.
Across Dorchester Bay from Commercial Point
52.
At rail 1 and 30 feet from centre of mound, looking toward rail 11
53.
Auxiliary collecting tank for tar, from south end
54.
Barque Warwick Creek : a "one o'clock tide" from path to railroad station
55.
Barque Warwick Creek : a "one o'clock tide" from near Mill Street
56.
Boom and bucket gear
57.
Boom and bucket gear ; : Hunt's patent coal hoist and automatic railway
58.
Boylston St. Front of Hotel Touraine Looking West 11:40 am
59.
Boylston St. Front of Hotel Touraine Looking West 12:40 PM.
60.
Building at retaining wall construction site
61.
Building of the Commercial Point Boat and Reading Club : within the yard of the gas-works
62.
Building retaining-wall on lot of "Central" Holder, Ferdinand Street
63.
Buildings at retaining wall construction site
64.
Buttress work complete; Refilling : from roof of engine house
65.
Buttress work completed; : view from south
66.
Castle St. Looking East from Albion St., 10:26 A.M
67.
City sewer work at Glover's corner; : truss supporting 24 inch gas main
68.
Commercial Point Station Machine Shop
69.
Commercial Point Works, from Dorchester Yacht Club's (Coulter's Wharf)
70.
Construction of holder no. 2; : "progress" picture
71.
Construction of holder no. 2 ; : building inner section, in the tank
72.
Construction site on Newbury Street and West Chester Park
73.
"Corcoran" house
74.
"Corcoran" house, from South Street toward Neponset Street
75.
"Corcoran" house from window of the next house south
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Corner of C & Tudor Streets; looking North, 11:10 A.M
77.
Corner of C and Tudor Streets, Looking east, 11:10 A.M
78.
Corner of C Street; 2:33 P.M
79.
Corner of Cambridge and Charles Streets, Looking North 12:05 PM.
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Corner of Cambridge and Charles Sts, Look North, 11:40 A.M
81.
Corner of Charles and Cambridge Sts., 11:35 A.M
82.
Corner of Friend and Washington Streets; 12:50 P.M
83.
Corner of Milk and Pearl Streets, Looking South, 1:55 P.M
84.
Corner of Tremont and Common Streets, 11:18 A.M
85.
Corner of Washington and Friend Streets; 12:45 P.M
86.
Cornerstone in trench
87.
The crack, a day or two after
88.
Delivery of drainage from tanks
89.
Detail of steam Coke-drawing Machine
90.
Detail of weighing apparatus on retort charger
91.
Drafting office, Boston Gas Light Company, 24 West Street
92.
Drawing machine on its way to round-house
93.
Dumping coke
94.
End of retort house, before cutting out doors for machines
95.
Entrance to Commercial Point Station from Neponset Street
96.
Excavation; : from dump
97.
Excavation; : from roof of engine-house
98.
Excavation for buttresses
99.
Excavation, to put in buttresses
100.
First two buttresses and relieving arch, full height
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