Boston & Maine railroad men
A promotional booklet issued in 1896 by the Young Men's Christian Association's Boston and Maine Railroad department in Concord, New Hampshire, for railroad employees. Its pictures show the association's gymnasium, reading room, billiard room and brick residence building, photographed in plain documentary style. A designer might take from them the sepia-toned interior views of late nineteenth-century institutional recreation spaces, with their exposed trusses, wooden chairs and long rows of tables.
