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This is a photograph of the view overlooking North Adams in approximately 1878, featuring a man looking out over the city in the foreground.

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…

This photograph displays the interior of the Weber Brothers Shoe Store in North Adams. It was taken as part of a 1898 publication called "North Adams and Vicinity Illustrated."

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

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