Old pictures of Quincy

1940

Families with a large number of children

1925

Conversation between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein

1970

Flight Attendants

1954

Galina Ulanova and Yuri Zhdanov in the ballet Romeo and Juliet

1967

Bagel Production

1939

Man and Woman Installing Lie Detector

1907

Pigeon Camera

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

1871

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

1901

East Platform of North Station

1905

Old State House

1940

A soldier with his date

1860

Aerial photo of Boston was captured from a hot air balloon

1940

Kids in Quincy

c. 1901

Elbert Hubbard

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

1916

Snow plow on Berkeley Street

c. 1880

Horticultural Hall

1903

Mechanics’ Hall

1890

Charlestown & Bunker Hill Monument

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge

1905

Jaynes Store at Hanover and Washington streets

1963

Taxi at Saxony Bar & Lounge

c. 1860

Old Feather Store

1932

TRAFFIC

1909

Fish Peddlers

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1846

First Surgery Using Inhaled Ether

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

c. 1918

Boat Suspected of Selling Alcohol is Inspected

1898

Boston City Hospital during the Spanish-American War

1860

Crowd waiting near Boston Common for the Prince of Wales

c. 1900

Apothecary

1897

Tremont Street Subway

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

1914

Junior dressmaking class at the Boston Trade School for Girls

1949

Salem Street

1919

Babe Ruth Red Sox