Boston, c.1905. Large Electric Lighting Service Distribution Transformer on Pole.

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted July 24, 2020

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Those two "rooftop" shaped boxes on each side of the transformer are either lightning arrestors or fuse cutouts. Whichever they were, they could have been made of cast iron.

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