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Item Description

Title: Burlington Streets: Main Street (Lower)

Photographer

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

Source Document

Description

May 5, 1943. Rail Removal Project. Burlington, Vermont by the city street dept. This view, looking east up the hill, shows Rail Removal Project at intersection of Main Street and So. Winooski Ave. where a hot-mix asphalt pavement had been constructed over the top of the rails to a depth of 2 to 3 inches. On the right are businesses that include (extreme right) Kent-Thomas Co advertising Armstrong tires at 211-213 Main, further up is 229 Main location of Nourse's restaurant. Across the street at 220 Main is the Chittenden County Jail, J. Frederick Lynch, county sheriff.

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

Subject/topic

• Street-railroad tracks
• Street photography
• Construction projects
• Business

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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