Union Square, Somerville, Massachusetts, 1966.

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A non-refillable bottle from 1917

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Wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, Parma, Italy.

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Wreck of the Titanic, set for 1997 film - inverted to ease lighting and camera angles.

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Marble floor of the Florence Cathedral

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Washington Street, Boston: 1953/2020.

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Mushroom farm

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On the set of Titanic (1997 film)

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Big Chute Marine Railway, Ontario, Canada.

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Titanoboa, extinct snake lived in South America 58 to 60 million years ago / replica created for the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens

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Cross section of a wind turbine blade

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What geologists see after shoveling snow. [1200×635]

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Timber climbing competition, Vancouver, 1976.

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Symphony of the Seas

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Cheese stored underground in a former limestone mine, Missouri.

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Prototype of a Transit Elevated Bus designed to straddle road traffic / the Chinese program was eventually scrapped due to issues of viability and corruption.

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Main Street, Spencer, Massachusetts

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Mosaic formed from over 320,000 steamed rice cakes (puto), Phillipines, 2017.

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World's Largest Mailbox (Casey, Illinois)

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Crowd control at comicbook convention in Japan

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Eye-to-eye swivel for a ship's mooring line

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Concrete dome of the Roman Pantheon / repair to crack during 1925 restoration.

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Eiger summit ridge, Switzerland.

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Undercut remnant of a former coral reef, Barbados.

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Cruise ship, Port Revel Shiphandling Training Centre, France.

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Abandoned narco semi-submersible, Costa Rica.

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Sculpture of Bison antiquus, an extinct species that lived until about 10,000 years ago / Lubbock Lake Landmark archaeological site, Texas.

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Indoor vertical farm, South San Francisco.

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Wasp nest, Brazil

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A canele is a French pastry with a custard center and caramelized crust. [1080×1009]

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Cheese

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Lion paws at the entrance to Sigiriya Fortress, Sri Lanka / the only remaining parts of a once colossal statue, Anuradhapura period, 5th century AD.

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Stop motion animator on the set of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

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South Market, Boston 1969/2021 - redeveloped in 1970s as part of Faneuil Hall Marketplace.

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Degassing pipes within the Bishop Tuff formation, near Crowley Lake, California; formed when volcanic ash covers a rich carbon source creating gas which erupts upwards.

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Low tide at a geoduck farm - Totten Inlet, Washington

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The Gate of Heaven, Lempuyang Temple, Bali / often seen online with a reflecting pool digitally added to the foreground.

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800-ton hydraulic excavator

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Hoover Dam miniature for movie 'Superman' (1978).

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Tmelapse at Mauna Kea observatory

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Realmonte salt mine, Sicily

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City of the Future (1936)

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Mos Espa Grand Arena (Phantom Menace)

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Godzilla Raids Again (1955) / Eiji Tsuburaya for scale.

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Breakfast for the Apollo astronauts, 1969. [1003×800]

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Some Jetsons Tech.

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Anchor chain, 1944.

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A bucket-chain excavator walking

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The largest refracting telescope ever built for astronomical research, in operation since 1897 / Yerkes Observatory, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

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Greek Revival house now an American Legion Post - Spencer, Massachusetts.

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Starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

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Adams & Robertson, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1931/2020.

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Blade for 15MW offshore wind turbine, manufactured at Nakskov, Denmark.

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Quinoa, an annual herbaceous plant cultivated for its tiny edible seeds, is not a grass (like rye or wheat) but rather a pseudocereal related to amaranth and spinach.

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Anechoic chamber at Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California.

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World's largest Van de Graaff generator, Boston Museum of Science.

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Boston Haymarket and Central Artery: 1967 / 2020. Elevated expressway moved underground during The Big Dig.

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SPARKY, world's first fully-electric tug

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Scale model for 1997 movie 'Titanic'

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Bow thrusters of an ocean liner

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Schooner Effie M. Morrissey departs Newfoundland and encounters a storm, 1940s.

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Kailash Temple, carved from a rock cliff face at the Ellora Caves / Rashtrakuta Dynasty, Southern India, 756-773 AD

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Roman mosaic created circa 300 CE, Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily

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The Golden Driller / Tulsa, Oklahoma / sixth-tallest statue in the United States.

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Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England.

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The corbel-vaulted main burial chamber of the Red Pyramid built by the Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu between 2575–2551 BCE

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Banana farm, Ecuador.

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Anticipation

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Old Hoover Tavern at Evans Mill, NY, 1944.

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Candy Wrapping machine

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A theater in Shau Kei Wan district, Hong Kong, circa 1910 / fate unknown but undoubtedly lost.

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Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory, Palomar Mountain, California

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Ship-Handling training facility, Warsash Maritime School, UK

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Demonstration of first dump bed lifted by hydraulic ram, 1912 - invented by Garfield Wood and implemented on a Pierce-Arrow coal truck with glycerin-based hydraulic fluid. [5900×4475]

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Polar bear

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RELIANCE, the 1903 America's Cup defender designed by Nat Herreshoff.

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City of the Future

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Geology in Chapada Diamantina, Brazil

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YARA BIRKELAND, world’s first fully electric and autonomous container ship [1080x810]

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Everett H. Barney residence, Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1890 on hilltop overlooking the Connecticut River. Lost in 1950s to construction of Interstate-91.

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Catafalque built to support the coffin of Victor Hugo at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1885.

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Megaliths at Osaka Castle, Chuo-ku, Japan, built in 1583.

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“Shuttlecocks” Kansas City, Missouri / Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

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On the set of 'The Hunt for Red October'

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Tide comes in, tide goes out / Hall's Harbour on the Bay of Fundy.

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Statue of Liberty, restoration project, 1984.

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Airplane filling up at the Cash Market, Marstons Mills, Cape Cod - over two miles on surface roads from the nearest airport; 1929 vs 2021.

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Low Earth orbit

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Closing the roof, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta

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Gasworks, Tegel, Berlin / built circa 1905, closed 1953, replaced by apartments.

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Phillis Wheatley Elementary School (1954), New Orleans; mid-century modern, cantilevered truss; architect Charles Colbert received national design awards but teachers criticized the large windows for distracting students; survived the floodwaters of Katrina but never reopened; demolished 2011.

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Retrofuture Commuting

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USS Coronado, a littoral combat ship.

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Canadian Pennies: pre- and post-1996. [1024×768]

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The High Line - an elevated railroad spur converted to urban park, NYC. [2000×1333]

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Outcrop of a coal seam in Antarctica [xpost /r/HumanForScale][850×1290]

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Hull Yacht Club, Massachusetts: Built 1882, razed 1930s.

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Diagram showing comparison of space devoted to machinery in a gas engine and steam-propelled torpedo boat, 1904. [1909x780]

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Normal faults in sedimentary rock - horst and graben - with r/HumanForScale [1050x800]

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Horticultural Hall, Boston (1865-1901): neoclassical design, top floor was a grand exhibition hall with 27' ceilings.

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Arnold's Tavern, Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts, built in 1741, demolished 1927 / reputed sleeping place of George Washington.

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Bactrian camel

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Northern Gate of Old City of Shanghai, dismantled 1912.

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Howe Residence, Spencer, Massachusetts. Birthplace of three inventors: William Howe (truss bridge), Tyler Howe (box-spring bed), and Elias Howe, Jr. (sewing machine). 18th-century vernacular colonial with two-story addition. Lost circa 1910.

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Kenilworth Castle, Holyoke, Massachusetts - built in 1894-1895 as a summer residence for Edward C. Taft, founder of the Albion Paper Company. Razed in 1959.

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The Bussey Institution, Boston, a school for agriculture and horticulture. Gothic Revival, built in 1870 of Roxbury pudding-stone. Razed in 1971 after being damaged by fire, site now part of Arnold Arboretum.

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Charcoal kiln, Prescott, Massachusetts - site now under Quabbin Reservoir / built and operated by Billie Burke.

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Brookline Public Library, Massachusetts. Built 1869, Second Empire style, replaced in 1910 by present library building.

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[r/OldPhotosInRealLife] Washington Street, 1953.

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In the early days of rocketry, NASA considered using pigs as test subjects only to rule them out when studies showed that pigs do not fare well lying on their backs for long periods of time. [2479×3150]

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A Mature Hedge (photo: Paul Debois)[533×800]

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Nanepashemet Hotel, Marblehead, Massachusetts: Shingle style, opened in 1881, lost to fire in 1914.

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Brad's Soda Shoppe, West Yarmouth, Massachusetts / Operated 1930-1975, demolished in 1979 to be replaced by a hotel.

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Fog in Yosemite Valley.

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The Boston Coliseum, aka Temple Of Peace, a temporary concert hall constructed to host the 1869 National Peace Jubilee celebrating the end of the Civil War. Ticket sales for the 5-day musical extravaganza covered the entire costs with excess funds distributed to disabled soldiers, widows and orphans

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They way they used to launch lifeboats in Scotland.

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Guardian Savings and Trust Building, 322-326 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio / J. Milton Dyer, Architect. Built 1904, now lost.

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SS Bessemer - an experimental Victorian steamship with an anti-roll passenger cabin, 1875. [1500×1206]

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Menauhant Hotel, Falmouth, Massachusetts: built 1875-1880, lost to fire 1918.

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Aluminum hull of a littoral (coastal) combat ship under construction. [874×1024]

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Marston's gristmill, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Built in 1702 (later enlarged), ground grain using hydropower till the 1920s, collapsed in a storm in March 1931.

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Space Soldier / 1966.

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Whetton's Grocery and General Store, Needham, Massachusetts: Greek Revival built in 1857, razed 1938. Served as post office and was first place in town to get a telephone. Upper floor was Highland Hall, a room for civic meetings, lectures, concerts, and dances.

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Meteor Crater, Arizona / created by a nickel-iron meteorite about 50 meters in diameter.

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Subsea power cable [1366×768]

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Sandwich Glass Factory, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Manufactured blown and pressed glass tableware from 1825 to 1889, employing over 500 people at height of production. Furnaces and factory buildings razed in 1920s.

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The container ship MAERSK HONAM was heavily damaged in 2018 after fire broke out in one of the forward cargo holds. The bow section was eventually scrapped in Dubai while the aft was transported back to South Korea by heavy-lift vessel XIN GUAN HUA x to be remade into a new vessel.

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Burger Boy Food-0-Rama (BBF), High Street, Morgantown, WV — Googie style, built 1966, lost circa 1980s.

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Stanley Road, Jamaica Plain, Boston - 1951.

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Auditorium at the Hawaiian Village Hotel, Honolulu / aluminum geodesic dome built 1957, razed 1999.

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Tremont House, Boston - built 1829, the first hotel in America with indoor plumbing and toilets, razed 1894 / additional hospitality services pioneered by the Tremont included a reception area, bellboys, free soap, and locks on guestroom doors.

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Gravity-based foundations for the Fecamp offshore wind farm, constructed at Le Havre, France. [1536x1536]

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Annotated aerial photo of Boston, Massachusetts and environs, 1930. [2854×2202]

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Squantum Yacht Club, Quincy, Massachusetts. Built 1904. Lost to fire, 1976.

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Dismantling the Palais de l'Industrie - an iron and glass exhibition hall built for the Paris World Fair in 1855. Taken down in 1897 to clear space for the Grand Palais of the 1900 World Fair.

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Charles H. Johnson residence, Prescott, Massachusetts: Greek Revival, lost to creation of Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s.

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Buzzards Bay Electric Co.'s Power House, Falmouth, Massachusetts / building originally housed a roller skating rink, repurposed to generate electricity 1911-1917, razed 1935.

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Entrance Arch to Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Erected in 1870, taken down in 1895 for extension of Commonwealth Ave. [6744x5296]

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Billiard room at Pollok House, Glasgow. [1000×769]

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Derby Square, Salem, Massachusetts .

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