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Item Description

Title: Burlington Streets: College Street

Photographer

• McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963

Source Document

Description

Aug 25, 1929 dated photo. Pouring concrete base on College Street in front of College Street Congregational Church. Note the construction of the base showing dowels spaced 5' on centers. This concrete base was constructed in 3--10' slabs 6" in thickness with 30" gutters on either sides extending 2" above the concrete base allowing for the surface coarse of Asphalt 2" in thickness. This work is all done by City labor and City equipment of the Burlington Street Dept. Fletcher Free Library can be seen in the background on the right.

Genre(s): photographs, black-and-white photographs

Subject/topic

• Street photography
• Construction workers
• Construction projects
• Church buildings

Subject/name

• Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets

Subject/geographic

• Burlington (Vt.)

Note [Digital Version]

2007-12-21, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: still image

Parent Collections

• Louis L. McAllister Photographs

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