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1.
Tile for Munich setting, stack K; : from stage on coal tower
2.
To show some new picket fences
3.
Across Dorchester Bay from Commercial Point
4.
"Corcoran" house, from South Street toward Neponset Street
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Holder no. 2, completed; : from Washington Street
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"Progress" picture
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Residential buildings, industrial buildings and gasholders at Commercial Point
8.
Tower washer, from roof of oil house
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Two holders, from naphtha-tank gallery, south of centre of retort house
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View of street, fence and gates
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Buttress work complete; Refilling : from roof of engine house
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Excavation; : from roof of engine-house
13.
Locometer gearing on transfer car
14.
View from coal conveyor track
15.
Neponset; from east of carpenter shop
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Construction of holder no. 2; : raising the first column
17.
Holder no. 2, completed; : from Plymouth Street
18.
Raising column IV.
19.
Buttress construction complete : employees begin refilling
20.
Buttress work complete; refilling : employees at rest
21.
Framing of inner section of gasholder
22.
Schooners at Commercial Point
23.
"Corcoran" house from window of the next house south
24.
Entrance to Commercial Point Station from Neponset Street
25.
Holder no. 1; : Mr. Lawson's arrangement to hold outer section while lifted for repairs to tank
26.
"Progress" picture : also shows steam supply from boiler house to pump in No. 1
27.
Space between the two tanks; : looking toward Plymouth Street
28.
Barque Warwick Creek : a "one o'clock tide" from near Mill Street
29.
Boom and bucket gear
30.
Boom and bucket gear ; : Hunt's patent coal hoist and automatic railway
31.
Building of the Commercial Point Boat and Reading Club : within the yard of the gas-works
32.
Excavation for buttresses
33.
Loading coke for Havana
34.
Loading coke onto ship; : view of Dorchester Bay in background
35.
Schooner Lambert
36.
Tile for Munich setting, stack K; : from west of coal shed
37.
Building stack I; brickwork started
38.
Buttress work completed; : view from south
39.
Construction of holder no. 2; : "progress" picture
40.
Construction of holder no. 2 ; : building inner section, in the tank
41.
"Corcoran" house
42.
Drawing machine on its way to round-house
43.
End of retort house, before cutting out doors for machines
44.
Excavation; : from dump
45.
Looking northwesterly up the yard
46.
The machine by itself
47.
North corner of retort house : the fast one to be put in of four water elevators carrying coke to furnaces
48.
"Progress" picture, showing no. 2 completed; : view across Pleasant and Washington Streets
49.
Repairs on holder tanks; : siphon drawing from no. 2
50.
Repairs on tank no. 1; : outer section slung to the columns
51.
Round-house etc
52.
Round-house, track, and car with locomotive gearing added for drawing and charging machines
53.
Tower Washer; : built of ordinary 36 inch cast iron main
54.
A winter view
55.
Finish of the 4-oar rowing race; : showing that the official photographer ought to be in the judge's boat
56.
Sailing race
57.
Sailing race
58.
Watching the games
59.
Sailboat in front of industrial buildings in Allston
60.
Conduit embankment and pumping station, looking toward Dorchester
61.
Construction of holder no. 2; : building inner section, in the tank
62.
Employees in front of gasholder
63.
Relief valve
64.
Backing up
65.
Coke on hand at beginning of year at Commercial Point Station
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Row boat in Dorchester Bay
67.
Schooner Lambert, just unloaded; capacity 2500 tons coal
68.
South Boston City Pier; Fort Independence; D.S. Lewis
69.
Steamer of the U.S. buoy service : passing the Gas Co.'s wharf
70.
Bay State Company's Works, from sewer embankment
71.
From sewer embankment
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From street approach to pumping station
73.
Gas holder tanks and columns, Bay State Gas Company
74.
Improved sewerage pumping station
75.
Main building : Bay State Gas Works
76.
Pumping Station buildings from Gas Company's side of dock
77.
Sludge tank; : gas-works in distance
78.
Auxiliary collecting tanks for tar; : J. Cuddihy holding rod
79.
Auxiliary tanks for ammoniacal liquor
80.
Beginning walls of brick porch; : showing whole south end of retort house
81.
Beginning walls of brick porch to keep wind out of retort house while machine doors are open
82.
Boring tar deposit out of standpipes
83.
Building stack I; : masons begin brickwork
84.
Coke on hand at beginning of year
85.
Construction of holder no. 2; : raising column II.
86.
Construction of holder no. 2; : raising column
87.
Construction of holder no. 2; : raising column I.
88.
Drawing machine on elevated track
89.
Entering the round-house; : gearing is not yet on the car
90.
Filling coke-wagon for stack K with Dennis Carney
91.
Filling coke-wagon for stack K with McGillis
92.
Framing of inner section; outer section begun, on staging set of wall of tank
93.
Holder yard at Federal Street, Boston
94.
Laborers setting tank; : Jim Maguire on far left
95.
Laborers setting tank using derrick
96.
Mason working on gasholder at Commercial Point Station
97.
Raising column III.
98.
Setting tanks
99.
457 Broadway; 2:13 P.M
100.
Air slits AA and smoke flues BB.
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