Original data provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Ornate barge being assembled, Charles River, 1919.
Corrected date based on information supplied by Digital Commonwealth user and verified by library staff, 2020.
Bucentaur, replica of Venetian barge, built to symbolically transport the Massachusetts Institute of Technology across the Charles River to the new Cambridge campus, 1916 (Information supplied by Digital Commonwealth user and verified by library staff, 2020).