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Life Along Boston’s Orange Line Before its Demolition

In the mid-1980s, Boston’s transportation authority scheduled part of the city’s elevated Orange Line for demolition. Photographer Jack Lueders-Booth spent 18 months photographing the communities along the Orange Line to create a record of those who lived there.

The old elevated southern section of Boston's Orange Line ran in a four-mile-long section down Washington Street from Boston's Chinatown Station to Forest Hills Station in the area known as Jamaica Plain. Built in 1901, it was an antiquated and deter...

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Robert E. Gerhardt

Robert Gerhardt is a New York based photographer and freelance writer. His photographs and writings have been published nationally and internationally including in The Hong Kong Free Press, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Diplomat.

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