Old pictures of Essex

1905

A Cape Ann fisherman

c. 1910

Boston and Maine Railroad depot

c. 1920

The Noonans, a family of 15 living in 1920s

1906

Memorial Hall

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge

1885

"Honest John"

1897

Tremont Street Subway

1846

First Surgery Using Inhaled Ether

c. 1860

Portrait of a ballet dancer

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1919

Babe Ruth Red Sox

1899

Elsie Leslie as Lydia Languish in Sheridan's play The Rivals

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

1970

Bobby Orr

1860

“Old Cocked Hat”

1906

Hotel Brunswick

1951

New traffic lights at Walnut Avenue

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

1905

Jaynes Store at Hanover and Washington streets

1932

TRAFFIC

1903

Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan

1915

Steam Locomotive During The Boston Flood

1909

Fish Peddlers

1896

Bates Hall, Boston Public Library

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

1859

Inauguration of Daniel Webster statue, Massachusetts State House

1909

Slums

c. 1918

Boat Suspected of Selling Alcohol is Inspected

1898

Boston City Hospital during the Spanish-American War

1901

East Platform of North Station

1916

Snow plow on Berkeley Street

1967

Attempt To Stop WOMAN From Competing In The Boston Marathon

1903

Mechanics’ Hall

1963

Taxi at Saxony Bar & Lounge

1860

Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It

1877

A young 19-year-old Teddy Roosevelt

1908

Merrimack Street looking west

1852

Mary Munroe Sanderson

1915

Eight-year old Jack

1899

General store

1933

Garegin Nzhdeh.