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Massachusetts Route 128

File / Documentation
Name

140747_sv.jpg

Size

3.23 MB

Format

JPEG

Checksum (MD5)

af331686ca1f7d0b3179766d5a181648

Creator(s)
government agency: Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Works (American, 1919-1991)
Time period
creation date: assigned along local roads from Milton to Salem, 1927, other date: opened as a four lane highway, 1951
Location
Site: Massachusetts (United States)
Cultural context
American
Description
Route 128, opened as a four lane highway 1951; first multi-lane circumferential highway in metropolitan area; located at a 10-mile radius from Boston.
general view, for lease sign by office buildings along Route 128, 1987
Work type
Highway
Keywords
Type
Image
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by Lois A. Craig
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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