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Item Description

Title: Burlington Streets: Winooski Ave.

Photographer

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

Source Document

Description

August 15, 1939. So. Winooski Ave. looking south from intersection of Main Street after Plant-Mix asphalt pavement with an average of one and one-half inches of hot asphalt binder course or leveling course and two inch wearing surface of American Bitumuls laykold mixture had been placed and the street opened to traffic. Sign to the left near a two story billboard structure states P.W.A. Federal Works Agency Public Works Administration Street Improvements. Billboards advertise Ritz Crackers and Chesterfield Cigarettes. Strong building on the corner to the right.

Subject/topic

• Street photography
• Construction projects
• Billboards
• Theaters

Subject/name

• United StatesWork Projects Administration.

• Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.)

• Burlington (Vt.)Dept. of Streets

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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