Old pictures of Nantucket

1938

Bicycle Shop

c. 1892

Main Street

1916

Snow plow on Berkeley Street

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge

1949

Salem Street

1919

Babe Ruth Red Sox

1970

Bobby Orr

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

c. 1880

Horticultural Hall

1905

Schooners at T wharf

1901

East Platform of North Station

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

1882

Bearded Irish clam diggers

1897

Tremont Street Subway

1905

Old State House

1871

Alexander Graham Bell, top right at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

1909

132 Marginal Street, East Boston

1914

Junior dressmaking class at the Boston Trade School for Girls

1909

Slums

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

1899

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

1925

AERIAL VIEW

1940

Kids in Quincy

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1909

Fish Peddlers

1898

Boston City Hospital during the Spanish-American War

1963

Taxi at Saxony Bar & Lounge

1915

Steam Locomotive During The Boston Flood

1951

New traffic lights at Walnut Avenue

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1967

Attempt To Stop WOMAN From Competing In The Boston Marathon

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1890

Charlestown & Bunker Hill Monument

c. 1900

Apothecary

1846

First Surgery Using Inhaled Ether

1903

Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan

1920

Custom House Tower

1860

“Old Cocked Hat”

1906

Hotel Brunswick