5020009-001

Object Type: Asset
In Folder: The Centre Street widening project

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5020009-001

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Record Identifier: 5020009-001

Record Creation Date: 2018-07-02

Description Standard: mods

Metadata Object Description

Title: The Centre Street widening project

Creator Name: Brooker, John P.

Type of Resource: 16mm (photographic film size)

Date Created: 1932

Language: english

Physical Form: 1 film reel (13 min.) : si., b&w, 24 fps ; 16 mm.

Conditions Governing Reproduction: Copyright not evaluated

LCSH Subject Heading: Streets--Design and construction

LCSH Subject Heading: West Roxbury (Boston, Mass.)

LCSH Subject Heading: Motion picture films

City: tgn:7013445

Neighborhood: tgn:7015008

Collection name and number: The Centre Street widening project (5020.009)

Box and folder location: Box 1

Metadata Object Description - Notes

Custodial history: Created by John P. Brooker. Donated by Donald Brooker, Ret. Capt. Hull Police to Alice Hennessey about 2015 for West Roxbury Historical Society. Donated to City Archives by Bob Murphy of the West Roxbury Historical Society in June of 2017.

Other descriptive data: This film was photographed and edited by John P. Brooker who worked as an Inspector on the Public Works project in 1932 to widen Centre Street in West Roxbury/Jamaica Plain. The area in the film appears to be the part of Centre Street between V.F.W. Parkway and the Arborway. The contractor for the project was C.J. Maney. Individuals in the film include John J. Crowley, Chief Inspector of the Paving Service; James F. McCabe, Inspector in Charge; John P. Brooker, Inspector; William J. Morrissey, Chief Engineer of the Highway Division; Joshua Atwood, Division Engineer; C.F. Collins, Resident Engineer; William C. Maney, Clerk of the Works; "Mike" Taurasi, General Foreman. Parts of Faulkner Hospital can be seen in the film.

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