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[East portal, Hoosac Tunnel, Florida, Mass.] – Vintage Wall Art

[East portal, Hoosac Tunnel, Florida, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[East portal, Hoosac Tunnel, Florida, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[East portal, Hoosac Tunnel, Florida, Mass.]

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The east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel, shown here near the village of Florida in northwestern Massachusetts, marks one of the most ambitious and troubled engineering projects of the nineteenth century. The tunnel, bored through the Hoosac Range, opened to rail traffic in 1875 after decades of delays, cost overruns and deadly work conditions, and it was long known as a costly feat of construction. This glass-plate negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document American rail lines and scenery in the years around 1900 to 1910.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 4193" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034895. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTunnels. Railroad tracks.United States--Massachusetts--Hoosac Range.United States--Massachusetts--Florida.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67694

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