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 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 two North Adams residents atop a horse-drawn cart, one of whom is identified as "Old Jim." In the background, the Keith Shoe Factory is visible.