Old pictures of Nantucket

1938

Bicycle Shop

c. 1892

Main Street

c. 1860

Portrait of a ballet dancer

1909

Boston market

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge

1968

Boy Wearing Supercap

1915

Steam Locomotive During The Boston Flood

1860

Aerial photo of Boston was captured from a hot air balloon

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

1905

Schooners at T wharf

1909

Fish Peddlers

1896

Bates Hall, Boston Public Library

1951

New traffic lights at Walnut Avenue

1901

Beacon Street

1932

TRAFFIC

1899

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

1909

Slums

1903

Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan

1859

Inauguration of Daniel Webster statue, Massachusetts State House

1890

Charlestown & Bunker Hill Monument

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

1871

Cabinet card

1919

Babe Ruth Red Sox

c. 1860

Old Feather Store

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

1909

132 Marginal Street, East Boston

1920

Frozen Cars After Severe Frost Fire in Boston

1916

Snow plow on Berkeley Street

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

1939

North End Library

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

c. 1918

Boat Suspected of Selling Alcohol is Inspected

1970

Bobby Orr

1925

AERIAL VIEW

c. 1900

Apothecary

1860

Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It

c. 1880

Horticultural Hall

1967

Attempt To Stop WOMAN From Competing In The Boston Marathon

1914

Junior dressmaking class at the Boston Trade School for Girls