Old pictures of Nantucket

1938

Bicycle Shop

c. 1892

Main Street

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1920

Frozen Cars After Severe Frost Fire in Boston

c. 1901

Elbert Hubbard

1890

Charlestown & Bunker Hill Monument

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1901

East Platform of North Station

1903

Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan

1949

Salem Street

c. 1880

Horticultural Hall

1899

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

1882

Bearded Irish clam diggers

1905

Old State House

1951

New traffic lights at Walnut Avenue

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1920

Custom House Tower

c. 1918

Boat Suspected of Selling Alcohol is Inspected

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

1910

Boylston Street

1909

Fish Peddlers

1860

Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It

1916

Snow plow on Berkeley Street

1846

First Surgery Using Inhaled Ether

1897

Tremont Street Subway

1905

Schooners at T wharf

1896

Bates Hall, Boston Public Library

c. 1900

Apothecary

1906

Hotel Brunswick

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

1905

Jaynes Store at Hanover and Washington streets

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

1898

Boston City Hospital during the Spanish-American War

1967

Attempt To Stop WOMAN From Competing In The Boston Marathon

1914

Junior dressmaking class at the Boston Trade School for Girls

1909

Slums

1860

“Old Cocked Hat”

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

1970

Bobby Orr

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

1860

Crowd waiting near Boston Common for the Prince of Wales