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.
This is an image of Wilson House, the North Adams' premier hotel. From its construction in 1866 and its destruction in a fire in 1912, Wilson House was a proud fixture of North Adams' downtown. This image was part of the 1898 publication "North Adams…