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Greater Boston Subway System and Trolley Cars Large Archive of Over 40 Photos Showing the Expanding Public Rail System in the 1930s

1935réf. 233291935. Public TransitMassachusetts Trolley and railway car photograph archive documenting electric transit circulation across Boston and the Greater Boston Area including Lynn Haverhill Lawrence Saugus Marblehead Watertown in the 1930s. The archive records cars trolley routes terminals and yards on the streets of Boston and surrounding cities during the long transition from privately run trolley networks to publicly managed metropolitan transit. Most images show the Boston Elevated Railway and Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway orbit with additional views tied to Springfield Providence and Connecticut operations placing the photographs within the broader interurban rail network that linked Boston to surrounding towns before the official creation of the MBTA. Boston's subway system is the oldest in the United States created in the 1890s by the Rapid Transit Commission in response to severe streetcar congestion on Tremont Street. The system created by the Boston Elevated Railway Company at the turn of the century helped define the infrastructure of modern Boston transit. These photographs preserve the street-level operating environment in the early years of expanding public transport in the city: destination boards transfer points yard scenes terminal loops and rolling stock moving through dense commercial districts snowbound streets and residential outskirts prior to the establishment of the MBTA in 1947. Photo archive of 41 silver gelatin photographs approximately 3 x 5.5 inches greater Boston and nearby cities in New England circa 1934-1946. The archive includes single-car and articulated streetcars coupled cars work or service equipment and yard scenes photographed in active street settings. Visible destination and route identifiers include Main Myrtle Lakeside Watertown Boston Tunnel Beach Bluff Saugus Branch Essex St Lawrence Main St line Haverhill Oak Park line and Marblehead Depot with captions on verso marking dates and locations. Several photographs show cars in dense commercial blocks with visible storefronts and wall advertising including American Loan & Savings Association Whitworth's Rubber Sporting Goods M. Casey & Co. Cigars & Tobacco Coca-Cola Pillsbury's Best Flour Harms School of Business and Rem for coughs; others show cars at depots loops and yards including Hooker St Yards. Repeated fare and service slogans are also visible on the cars especially "Save money with weekly pass" and "Ride all day for $1 20 cities 51 towns" makes the archive particularly strong as evidence of regional transit marketing and network integration. Other images capture scenes of the train cars in the snow at crossings switching tracks and running beside early automobiles an active record of the trolley system functioning within everyday urban traffic. This archive preserves the operating network that fed a larger system of public transit across city neighborhoods and outlying towns serviced by America's oldest subway system. The photographs show the routes terminal circulation yard storage and municipal reach of this system especially in the Eastern Massachusetts territory where one fare structure and one rolling-stock family served dozens of communities. Light handling wear and some discoloration on verso images clean and complete. Overall very good condition. A large visual record of the Greater Boston street railway service moving through city streets suburbs and terminals. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis650,00 $US≈ 580,72 €

Boston Area Transit SystemABAA

Streetcar Modernization and Boston Area Terminal Operations 25 Color Photographs with identifying captions 1970-1972

1970réf. 234661970. Urban transit photo archive depicting MBTA trolley PCC and commuter rail operations across Greater Boston during the agency's first decade of system consolidation and modernization 1970-1972 shortly after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority absorbed many aging lines and inherited rolling stock from earlier private and municipal systems. Several captions identify ex Dallas Transit PCC cars operating at Mattapan Station documenting the nationwide postwar transfer of surplus streetcars into Boston service as American transit agencies abandoned street railway systems in cities such as Dallas Cleveland and Cincinnati during the 1950s and 1960s. Photo archive of 25 chromogenic color snapshot photographs each 3.5 x 3.5 inches Boston Brookline Cambridge Newton Watertown and surrounding Massachusetts locations 1970-1972. Highly legible captions preserve exact locations car numbers transfer origins and operational terminology valuable for transit history urban planning industrial design and postwar metropolitan infrastructure research. Handwritten verso captions identify specific equipment routes and locations including "Picture window PCC car Riverside terminal Newton Mass." "All electric 3197 ex Dallas at Mattapan Station Boston Mass 10/71" "Trackless trolleys at N. Cambridge carhouse" "MBTA work car at Lechmere yard" "Boston & Maine RDC cars at North Station" and "Trolley coach at Watertown Sq." Orange-and-cream PCC streetcars appear at yard tracks terminal loops maintenance areas and curbside boarding points beneath dense trolley wire networks while interior views show fluorescent-lit passenger compartments with transverse seating metal grab rails and wide picture windows characteristic of postwar PCC design. Additional scenes record Commonwealth Avenue service through Brookline Cleveland Circle operations work equipment at Watertown carhouse all-electric consists at Arborway and Mattapan and Boston & Maine RDC commuter rail equipment standing beside elevated platforms at North Station. Riverside Terminal in Newton appears repeatedly showing the Green Line's western extension over the former Boston and Albany Highland Branch a commuter rail corridor converted to rapid trolley service in 1959 to relieve growing automobile congestion along Route 9. North Station scenes place PCC and RDC equipment within the same transportation network recording the coexistence of street railway infrastructure and regional commuter rail service immediately before the MBTA's major 1970s reconstruction campaigns reshaped much of the system. The archive captures the MBTA immediately before major service reductions and infrastructure rebuilding altered many of the locations shown including the eventual closure of Arborway streetcar service and the disappearance of several surviving PCC fleets from daily operation. Light surface wear and occasional minor fading; captions fully readable throughout. Overall in very good condition. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 402,04 €

Chinese-American in 19 cent BostonABAA

Chinese American Man in Boston Studio Cabinet Card 1890s

1890réf. 227691890. Chinese American Boston Chinese American cabinet card circa 1890s a formal studio portrait produced during the height of the Chinese Exclusion era. Created in Boston around or shortly after the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act the photograph provides evidence of Chinese American presence in New England and self-representation in the diasporic community through dignified and professional portraiture despite legal and social marginalization. Chickering Elmer. Chinese American man portrait. Boston: Elmer Chickering Studio circa 1890s. Albumen cabinet photograph mounted on original cardstock. The sitter is depicted in a composed frontal pose wearing a dark high-collared suit associated with middle-class professional attire of the period with a carefully styled mustache and direct gaze. The photograph conforms to late 19th-century studio conventions in lighting posture and presentation aligning the subject visually with the formal portrait norms of Boston society clientele typically served by Chickering's studio. The mount verso bears the printed mark "The Original Chickering Photographic Studio" identifying the maker as an established Boston portraitist known for photographing actors public figures and affluent patrons. The choice of studio and format indicates intentional participation in mainstream visual culture positioning the sitter within a framework of dignity and social assertion. Produced during a period when Boston's Chinese community was small and concentrated in the South Cove now Bay Village this portrait is especially significance by its timing amid exclusionary federal policy and local discrimination. Chinese Americans in the Northeast during the late 19th century are infrequently documented in formal studio settings particularly by high-profile commercial studios. The photograph contributes to the limited visual record of Chinese American life in the region illustrating both the constraints of the exclusion era and the presence of individuals navigating and asserting identity within those conditions. Minor edge wear to mount; image clear with strong tonal contrast. Overall very good condition. A significant example of Chinese American studio portraiture in the late 19th-century United States. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 670,06 €

[Homer, James L, editor of the Boston Gazette]ABAA

Thompson the Abolitionist

réf. 9998Boston: October 1835. Letterpress broadside 8.875" x 12 sheet size. Early ink inscription on verso reading: "Return to C.C. Mason of the Me Cong. the M.E. Ch." CONDITION: Good old folds a few tissue repairs on verso to small holes loss along fold in lower margin just nicking "2" in "2 o'clock" a few small losses to lower edgesome toning and foxing. with Garrison William Lloyd. Autograph letter signed to William E. Gould regarding the confrontation with the pro-slavery mob in October 1835. Boston 8 December 1877. 2 pp. 7.75" x 5" with original cover addressed to Gould with 3 cent stamp and Boston postmark. Written in response to Gould's letter requesting information on the Thompson broadside see below. CONDITION: Very good old folds. with Gould Emma Maynard Dow. Autograph letter signed by Emma Maynard Dow Gould William Gould's wife to John likely John Mead Gould William's brother regarding the broadside and Garrison letter offered here. Probably Boston 2 May 1892. 1 p. 7.75" x 4.875". CONDITION: Very good old folds. with Half plate daguerreotype of the Gould family. Portland Maine 1853. Housed in a thermoplastic case. CONDITION: Very good image clear and un-touched mat tarnished case fully intact and attractive. An exceptionally rare broadside relating to one of the most notorious moments in the history of abolitionism accompanied by a letter of William Lloyd Garrison providing an account of events and referring to his "ruffianly seizure" by the pro-slavery mob with a related family letter and Gould family daguerreotype. In 1835 one of the leading British abolitionists George Thompson 1804-1878 traveled from the United Kingdom for a lecture tour of the United States in response to an invitation from William Lloyd Garrison whom he had met in 1832 in Scotland where the two became friends. In the 1877 ALS included here Garrison recalls the events surrounding the broadside: "On the 21st of October 1835 the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society attempted to hold its annual meeting. At that time George Thompson the eloquent and successful advocate of British West India Emancipation was laboring here with the Abolitionists and by their invitation to effect a similar deliverance for the Southern slave population. To intensify the popular pro-slavery spirit against him he was falsely and maliciously branded by the press as a British emissary who had been sent here by the British Government with his pockets lined with British gold 'for the purpose of overthrowing our Glorious Union' etc etc." The broadside explicitly intended to incite a mob yet attempting to characterize its purpose as patriotic calls for the pro-slavery supporters to seize and tar Thompson: That infamous scoundrel THOMPSON will hold forth this afternoon at the Liberator Office No. 48 Washington Street. The present is a fair opportunity for the friends of the Union to snake Thompson out! It will be a contest between the Abolitionists and the friends of the Union. A purse of $100 has been raised by a number of patriotic citizens to reward the individual who shall first lay violent hands on Thompson so that he may be brought to the tar kettle before dark. Friends of the Union be vigilant! Aware of the gathering mob Thompson did not attend the meeting as scheduled and Garrison instead went to speak to the Society. Garrison continues with his description of the events unfolding including fascinating details of the author and publisher of the inciting broadside: "It was deemed prudent by ladies for his own personal safety that he should not attend the meeting aforesaid; nevertheless it was rumored that he was to be present and this led to the issuing of the mob-exciting placard which you have copied in your letter and about which you express a wish to be further informed. That placard was written by James L. Homer editor of the Boston Gazette and printed in his office and distributed throughout the city!" Garrison concludes with his own experience on the day: "The result was the gathering of a mob of five thousand persons the breaking up of the ladies meeting my ruffianly seizure and being dragged through the streets finally rescued by the city constabulary and incarceration in Leverett Street jail to save my life." Garrison was indeed seized by the pro-slavery mob and was dragged through the streets with a rope around his waist with the intent of tarring and feathering him or worse. Boston Mayor Theodore Lyman II intervened and confined Garrison for his own safety. The example of the broadside offered here at one time owned by Reverend C. C. Mason of the Methodist Episcopal Church was subsequently given to William Gould whose curiosity regarding events surrounding it led him to write to Garrison. Gould's letter penned from Portland Maine on November 14th 1877 is in the Boston Public Library's Anti-Slavery Collection MS A.1.2 v.39 p. 154A. He writes in part: "I have copied upon the page annexed a sheet sent me by an old minister. It is so very different from the state of things today that I want to frame it for my Library & I would be very glad to frame also any reply you may be pleased to make to me when I now ask you if you will. Kindly tell me what year this was. What was the result of the appeal and if it is known who was the author of the document." Also included here is an 1892 letter from Gould's wife Emma 1836-1918 to his brother John offering the collection of items to him: "Edw. has framed a relic which he thinks you may like. It is a placard printed in Boston in Feb. sic 1835 intended to incite a pro-slavery mob at the time of an anti-slavery meeting with it is an autographed letter from Wm. Loyd sic Garrison explaining it which he wrote Edw. in reply to one from him asking information about the affair. If you would like it perhaps Theo will come for it. I am breaking up and packing and it will be one thing out of my way. If you do not come for it he will give it to the Historical Society." Emma refers here to her husband by his middle name Edward. Lending additional interest to this lot is a half plate daguerreotype of the Gould family of Portland Maine. Edward Gould 1805-1894 and his wife Althea Chase Gould 1808-1894 are seated at center surrounded by their six children. William E. Gould the eldest son stands at the center his hand resting on his father's shoulder. To the left of William is his brother John Mead Gould who would go on to achieve distinction in the Civil War. Although often cited in accounts of the abolitionist movement the Thompson broadside is exceptionally rare. We locate just two copies in institutions at The National Museum of African American History & Culture and the Massachusetts Historical Society. OCLC records a copy at the Library of Congress dated 1851 in the record but it is pictured on the LC site and appears to be a reproduction of some sort. An important group of items documenting the conflict in Boston surrounding abolitionism in the 1830s and a wonderful example of private historical preservation. Provenance: Reverend Charles C. Mason b. ca. 1820 to William E. Gould 1837-1919 to his brother John Mead Gould 1839-1930. Boston: [October, 1835] unknown books

James Arsenault & Company · États-Unis25 000,00 $US≈ 22 335,40 €

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