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Item Description

Title: Burlington Streets: Battery Street Park

Photographer

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

Source Document

Description

1938 - 1940 photograph of Battery Park. Original caption reads: Battery Park - WPA (Work Projects Administration) Project No. 65-12-344 This view shows the 10' asphalt sidewalk after the base had been placed and rolled just prior to placing the finish coat; also the concrete footing to receive the stone masonry parapet wall. Note the old system of street light poles and the old pavement to the right. The look-off with Rock Point in the distance.

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

Subject/topic

• Construction projects
• Urban parks

Subject/geographic

• Burlington (Vt.)
• Battery Park (Vt.)

Subject/name

• United StatesWork Projects Administration.

Note [Digital Version]

2007-10-19, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: still image

Parent Collections

• Louis L. McAllister Photographs

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