Description: Middlesex County Courthouse in East Cambridge. Exterior of the high-rise building with jail on top six floors. Plywood Ranch in Lechmere Square in foreground.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/01/1977
Description: US Treasury film on banking, money
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/16/1977
Description: Fundraising reception for revamping of The Music Hall into the Metropolitan Theatre as a venue for ballet and opera. Gathering of Boston Brahmins. Wine, hors d'oeuvres, string quartet. Archival photo of grand interior of original theater. Betty Cook, Harry Lodge, Clara Wainwright.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/10/1977
Description: National Weather Service station at Logan Airport. Many teletypes printing out forecasts and conditions: “blizzard warning.” Page of high and low temperatures for Caribbean and Central American resort areas in Fahrenheit and Celsius (centigrade). Plot maps with isobars. Wind speed and direction gauges. Man at computer with old CRT monitor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/27/1977
Description: Orange line Egleston station. POV riding up escalator to outdoor platform with few passengers waiting. Empty train pulls up, people board. POV riding along track, looking inbound to Boston and down onto track bed. Train interior. Characteristic screeching and locomotion clunking sounds. Train passes through Dudley station. Map sign of MBTA subway system.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1977
Description: Close-ups of Bally pinball machines with sound effects.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/21/1977
Description: Political commentators opine about Jimmy Carter early in his presidency.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1977
Description: Five color photos of Quincy Market under renovation, circa 1977. Courtesy Faneuil Hall Marketplace.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1977
Description: Norway rats, bred in lab, in glass containers lined with wood shavings. Shiny dark brown-gray fur. One cleans and grooms self. They are kept for the purpose of testing rat poisons by public health department. Man pours vats of grain into mixer. Barrels labelled “poison.” Pail labelled “pest control chemicals.” Shelves stocked with sugar, vegetable oil, peanut butter, nutmeg, pet food. Posters explain how to avoid attracting rats.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/29/1977
Description: Interview with Richard Rowland, director of Massachusetts Association of Elder Americans, on state funding for homemaker services to assist senior citizens with housekeeping and errands and help them stay out of nursing homes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1977