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A dog and several people are walking across the card from left to right. There appears to be a railroad accident in the background. Text on the front: "Depressing effect of the walking mania/on the horse rail roads/Metropolitan R.R. sold out/South…

A view of the site of the West Shaft of the Hoosac Tunnel and the piles of removed rubble. On the front: "Russell & Stone - 1873/Hoosac Tunnel and Vicinity." On the back: "No.26.- West Shaft and dumps./Half a/mile from West End, 318 feet deep. The…

A view of the deep gorge below Clark's Mill. On the back: "Stereoscopic views/of/Hoosac Tunnel, Berkshire Hills, Greylock Hall,/Natural Bridge, &c./Published by H. D. Ward, Main Street,/Opp. Savings Bank,/North Adams, Mass." This is followed by a…

North Adams, Massachusetts

The central shaft of the Hoosac Tunnel. On the back: "No.799/Hoosac Tunnel,/ruins of central shaft. This view represents Mallory making his third perilous descent/for the recovery of the bodies of the thirteen unfortunate men, the second/morning…

A cabinet card photograph taken at the Hurd & Smith's Excelsior Gallery. James Stevens was one of the stagecoach drivers who took passengers over the Hoosac Mountain before the Hoosac Tunnel opened in 1875. He is mentioned in Washington Gladden's…