Custom House Tower under construction, ca. 1913
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1913
- Street-level view north-northwest of the construction of the Custom House Tower, located on State Street at India Street. The south-southeast elevation of the Custom House is visible in the photograph. Construction equipment and scaffolding are also visible. Several workers and a few horse-drawn wagons fill McKinley Square, which surrounds the Custom House. Signage adorns some of the buildings ... read morelining both the north-northwest side of State Street and the east side of Commercial Street, which are visible to the north or to the right of the Custom House in the photograph. Copyprint; Custom House designed by Ammi Burnham Young, 1837-47; Custom House Tower designed by Peabody and Stearns, 1913-15 7 1/2 x 8 1/8, 7 15/16 x 9 15/16 overall Photographsread less
- Signs and signboards
- Construction workers
- Buildings
- Government buildings
- Custom House
- Scaffolding
- Horse-drawn vehicles
- Construction equipment
- Carts and wagons
- Businesses
- Customhouses
- Grocers
- People
- Young, Ammi Burnham
- Boston (Mass.)
- Massachusetts
- India Street
- Custom House District
- State Street
- Haskell, Adams and Company
- Peabody and Stearns
- ID:
- qn59qd44z
- Component ID:
- tufts:TBS.VW0001.000771
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