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This is a photograph of James Hunter Machine Works, sourced from a book published in 1898 called "North Adams and Vicinity Illustrated."

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 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 is a photograph of trains in a rail yard in North Adams, with a steeple, smokestacks, and some of the city's skyline visible in the background.

This is a photograph of Phoenix Mill and the adjacent canal. The sign on the side of the building reads, "Phoenix Mills' Flour, Grain, Feed & Meal."

This is a photograph from the street of the Sampson Shoe Factory, where the worker's strike took place and where the Chinese workers were brought in as replacement laborers. A few of the workers are visible through open windows on the third floor.

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 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 shows workers constructing the Hoosac Tunnel's West Portal.

This photograph documents the official opening of the Hoosac Tunnel in 1876. Engineers, investors, and other observers of the ceremony and some of their wives are all posed around a locomotive at the mouth of the tunnel.