The images below are details of stereoviews. Many come from the "Hoosac Tunnel" series, a name used by photographers throughout Massachusetts during the late 19c to group and market their collections of stereoviews of North Adams, the Hoosac Tunnel, and the environs of the northern Berkshires.




Unknown Photographer,

Lasting Machine Shaping Shoes in a Massachusetts Shoe Factory, c. 1885


William Hurd and William Smith,

Miners Descending Shaft, c. 1870

 

Henry D. Ward,

Miners Descending Shaft, c. 1865

J.S. Moulton,

Entrance to Hoosac Tunnel, c. 1865