Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(RAIL WORKERS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees, Labor Day. Panoramic photograph, 66 x 6 1/4 inches sight size, professionally matted in heavy wood frame. Not examined outside of frame. Boston, MA: Falk Photo Company, 2 September 1912

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Thousands of streetcar workers posed with their banner for this spectacular view, which also shows long stretches of Eliot and Boylston Streets, Columbus Avenue, and Park Square just south of the Boston Public Garden. Loaned to the Smithsonian's National Building Museum for their 2002 exhibit "On Track: Transit and the American City."