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Black and white photograph of the Hoosac Tunnel East Portal in Florida Massachusetts. Shacks appear to line either side of the tracks.

Black and white west facing view of Main Street in North Adams. Horse and buggies line either side of the road.

This is a photograph of the shoe store owned by Calvin T. Sampson and stocked with Sampson shoes, located in downtown North Adams on the first floor of a 3-story building.

This is a staged photograph taken in 1877 of three of the Chinese workers brought in to break the strike at the Sampson Shoe Factory. Here, they appear in Western dress. They are tentatively identified as Charlie Sing (the overseer), Ah Dock, and Ah…

This is a photograph of Lue Gim Gong, who at one time worked with other young Chinese men at the Sampson Shoe Factory, and his pet rooster March. The date is uncertain, but based upon his apparent middle to advanced age in the photograph, it is…

This undated photograph features a street view of a North Adams shop, Snyder & Company, as well as residents in horse-drawn carts and (faintly) one of the city's church steeples in the background.

This photograph features a steam locomotive loaded with coal in a North Adams rail yard. Though undated, it was likely taken a short time before 1900 -- after the completion of the Hoosac Tunnel and the building behind the train, and before the 1911…

This photograph captured a steam locomotive exiting the Hoosac Tunnel's West Portal. Though it is undated, the photo was taken before the electrification of the Hoosac Tunnel in 1911.

This 1895 photograph features a Refrew trolley (owned by the Hoosac Valley Street Railway Company) turning at the corner of sounthern Main Street and State Street in downtown North Adams. This was one of the many trolleys which ran along the trolley…

This photograph shows workers constructing the Hoosac Tunnel's West Portal.