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===MBTA era and branding=== [[File:Tichnor Brothers Harvard Square postcard, circa 1930s.jpg|thumb|right|The station entrance in Harvard Square]] The line was sometimes referred to as the '''Cambridge–Dorchester line'''<ref>{{cite journal |title=Developed at Boston |journal=Transit Journal |date=December 1932 |volume=76 |issue=12 |page=512 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=620TAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Cambridge%E2%80%93Dorchester+line%22}}</ref> and the '''Cambridge–Dorchester subway'''.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Horace Nathaniel Gilbert |author2=Charles Insco Gragg |title=An Introduction to Business: A Case Book |date=1929 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |page=313}}</ref> It was marked on maps as "Route 1".<ref>{{cite map |title=System Route Map |date=1966 |title-link=:commons:File:1966 MBTA system map.png |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority |first=Richard F. |last=Lufkin |via=Wikimedia Commons}}</ref> After taking over operations in August 1964, the MBTA began rebranding many elements of Boston's public transportation network. Colors were assigned to the rail lines on August 26, 1965 as part of a wider modernization developed by [[Cambridge Seven Associates]], with the Cambridge–Dorchester line becoming the '''Red Line'''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56546635/the-boston-globe/ |title=...Meanwhile, Back on the Circle-T |newspaper=Boston Globe |first=Robert B. |last=Hanron |date=August 26, 1965 |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> [[Peter Chermayeff]] claims to have assigned red to the line because of Harvard's association with [[crimson]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/09/how-boston-got-its-t/570004/ |title=How Boston Got Its 'T' |magazine=[[CityLab (web magazine)|CityLab]] |quote=I remember sitting in my Cambridge office preparing for a meeting with the MBTA in which I would be proposing colored lines. I had markers in front of me and I chose red for the line that went to Harvard since it’s a well-known institution whose main color is crimson. |date=September 17, 2018 |first=Mark |last=Byrnes}}</ref> <!--In 1968, letters were assigned to the south branches, "A" for Quincy (planned to extend to South Braintree) and "C" for Ashmont. "B" was probably reserved for a planned branch from Braintree to [[Brockton, Massachusetts|Brockton]]. As new [[rollsign]]s were made, this lettering was phased out. In 1994, new electronic signs included a different labeling, "A" for Ashmont, "B" for Braintree, and "C" for Alewife.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.transport.urban-transit/browse_frm/thread/a39e96e4ecc836ca/a9a23545f09a35c6 |title=misc.transport.urban-transit | Google Groups |work=Groups-beta.google.com |access-date=2012-06-10}}</ref>-->
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