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Sumner Tunnel (Boston), Construction Photographs, 1929-1933

How do you build a tunnel under Boston Harbor? Very carefully, of course. This remarkable digital archive from the University of Massachusetts-Boston brings together photographs that document the construction of the first Boston Harbor Tunnel, which was later renamed the Sumner Tunnel. This key part of Boston's infrastructure was constructed to handle automobile traffic from the North End of...

https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll13