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Total Guess
By Stevil
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:15am
Who needs that many filing cabinets - building inspectors - ISD or it's equivalent around 1940.
Adam's
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:17am
hard drive?
Hmmmm??
By Stevil
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:25am
Are the little gnomes at lunch? And did they take their little gnome hammers with them?
theszak's transcript archive
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:23am
theszak's transcript archive taken one hour ago and photo-shopped to look olde tymey
Not card catalogs
By Allstonian
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:05pm
Those aren't card catalog files, they're full letter-sized file cabinets. Could be ISD or its equivalent, as Stevil says; could be any number of public records.
Are the desks in pairs, facing each other?
By bibliotequetress
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:15pm
Or am I seeing that wrong?
Another total guess
By ElizaLeila
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 12:50pm
A Police Station somewhere? The desks are singular, but behind the front one you can see a 'guest' chair and to our right of it, what looks like an old stenographer's machine. So either testimony is given at open desks - making me think of Barney Miller ... ;-) Or these are lawyers with stenographers?
Old BPD HQ?
By O-FISH-L
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 2:15pm
Agree with ABBQ. Guessing the old BPD HQ 154 Berkeley Street, now the Loews Boston.
Excellent Guess
By Stevil
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:53pm
Which probably puts the photo at 1924 - the opening of the building (i'm guessing this is the only time in history the police HQ looked that pristine):
That looks about like it could be about 20X20 column spacing - which I'm guessing was a feature in its day.
Love the telephone
By BB from Dot
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 1:07pm
Love the telephone on the first desk. My mother had one like that as a kid, so this might be from the 1930's
The Dewey Decimal System.....
By Carndogs
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:58pm
What a scam that was!
I was there last week. Place
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:51pm
I was there last week. Place looks the same- second floor BPL. They spend their money on lost art work.
26 Court St?
By Neal
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 10:07am
F/K/A City Hall Annex?
Helloooooooooo???
By Stevil
Mon, 07/20/2015 - 2:23pm
BCA - is anyone going to post an answer?
Maybe they were hoping....
By Michael Kerpan
Mon, 07/20/2015 - 2:29pm
.. we could tell them. ;-)
Ha!
By ElizaLeila
Mon, 07/20/2015 - 4:41pm
No one followed up here. We were all wrong:
"Today's #mysteryphoto shows the office of the City's Printing Plant located on North St, ca 1933. @universalhub "
https://twitter.com/ArchivesBoston/status/62141570...
Thanks ABBQ
By Stevil
Tue, 07/21/2015 - 4:43pm
I think they sold that building and the equipment a few years ago. Heard they sold the movable print as a large lot - and I think the guy that bought it made most of his money back selling small bits of the lot to the people that lost out in the on site auction.
Not knocking the city - they aren't in the retail biz and at the end of the day relatively small potatoes - but you gotta give the guy that bought all that print a tip of the cap. Guessing he made some money on it -but can't imagine how heavy it was to haul away and then the cost to sell it off piecemeal - yikes.
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