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Item Description

Title: Burlington Streets: Main Street (Upper)

Photographer

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

Source Document

Description

April 20, 1938 view of Main Street from South Union to South Willard Street, WPA Project 465-12-1-16 This view shows the construction work after all excavation of the old pavement had been made and sand cushion with telford stone base had been nearly completed; also crushed stone base placed on the telford on the south half of the street. To the extreme right is seen a corner of the Edmunds High School building (Burlington High School).

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

Subject/topic

• Street photography
• Construction workers
• Construction projects

Subject/name

• Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets

• United StatesWork Projects Administration.

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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