Photograph of the aftermath of the Summer Street Bridge disaster, November 8, 1916.

Item Information

Title:
Photograph of the aftermath of the Summer Street Bridge disaster, November 8, 1916.
Description:
On the evening of November 7, 1916, a streetcar plunged 20 feet off an open drawbridge into the Fort Point Channel, sinking some 30 feet below the surface. There were 47 fatalities and only a handful of survivors. George Burgess Magrath and Timothy Leary, as medical examiners, were called to the scene to help identify the bodies of the victims. The photograph shows the raising of the streetcar once divers had cleared bodies from the wreckage.
Creator:
Photographer unknown
Date:
November 8, 1916
Location:
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection (local):
Harvard Medical School. Department of Legal Medicine. Department of Legal Medicine Records, circa 1877-1967 (inclusive), 1909-1967 (bulk). M-DE06.
Series:
Harvard Medical School. Department of Legal Medicine. Department of Legal Medicine Records, circa 1877-1967 (inclusive), 1909-1967 (bulk). M-DE06.
Subjects:
Electric railroads--Cars
Magrath, George Burgess, 1870-1938
Lantern slides
Extent:
1 glass lantern slide
Link to Item:
https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/17805
Terms of Use:
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Language:
English
Notes:
Harvard Medical School. Department of Legal Medicine. Department of Legal Medicine Records, circa 1877-1967 (inclusive), 1909-1967 (bulk).
From the Records of the Department of Legal Medicine.
Identifier:
M-DE06, lantern slide box 2.