Vanishing Boston: An exhibit documenting urban change, loss, and past, 1983.

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Vanishing Boston: An exhibit documenting urban change, loss, and past, 1983.

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This collection consists of 62 of the 64 matted black and white photographs that comprised the exhibit Vanishing Boston, the exhibit titles, lists of captions, and Montgomery's resume. The photographs document a number of Boston's industrial buildings on Washington Street, many of which may no longer exist, and the elevated section of the Orange Line, which was torn down in the early 1990s.

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University of Massachusetts at Boston, Healey Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7657656

University of Massachusetts at Boston, Healey Library

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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

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The MBTA is the state agency responsible for the public transportation system in the Boston metropolitan area. From the description of Glass plate collection on the MBTA, 1896-1940 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 234360181 The Boston Elevated Railway Company was established in 1894 and replaced successively by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in 1947 and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in 1964. From the description of Boa...

Orange Line (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)

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Montgomery, Laura Marie

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Before Laura L. Montgomery graduated from UMass/Boston in 1984, she served as associate photography editor for the Mass Media. Montgomery took the photographs for Vanishing Boston: An Exhibit Documenting Urban Change, Loss, and Past, between 1980 and 1982. The exhibit was organized in four sections: Hotel Demolition; The Dead and Dying Mercantile and Professional Businesses, Washington Street, Boston; An Industrial Portrait; and Victorian Remains, Boston's Elevated Railway, the Orange Line. ...