Old pictures of Nantucket

1938

Bicycle Shop

c. 1892

Main Street

1846

First Surgery Using Inhaled Ether

c. 1900

Apothecary

1905

Old State House

1860

“Old Cocked Hat”

1905

Jaynes Store at Hanover and Washington streets

1905

Schooners at T wharf

1903

Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan

1882

Bearded Irish clam diggers

1920

Custom House Tower

1939

North End Library

1860

Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

1909

132 Marginal Street, East Boston

c. 1901

Elbert Hubbard

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

1916

Snow plow on Berkeley Street

1909

Slums

1897

Tremont Street Subway

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1914

Junior dressmaking class at the Boston Trade School for Girls

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

1932

TRAFFIC

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge

1859

Inauguration of Daniel Webster statue, Massachusetts State House

1951

New traffic lights at Walnut Avenue

1910

Boylston Street

1890

Charlestown & Bunker Hill Monument

1901

East Platform of North Station

1899

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

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1906

Hotel Brunswick

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

1904

STATE HOUSE

1963

Taxi at Saxony Bar & Lounge

1860

Aerial photo of Boston was captured from a hot air balloon

c. 1860

Old Feather Store

1919

Babe Ruth Red Sox

1871

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

1915

Steam Locomotive During The Boston Flood