Old pictures of Bolton

1917

STILL RIVER

1910

Boylston Street

1909

Slums

1860

Aerial photo of Boston was captured from a hot air balloon

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1906

Hotel Brunswick

1897

Tremont Street Subway

1919

Babe Ruth Red Sox

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1903

Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan

1860

Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It

1949

Salem Street

1882

Bearded Irish clam diggers

1905

Old State House

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge

c. 1901

Elbert Hubbard

1903

Mechanics’ Hall

1914

Junior dressmaking class at the Boston Trade School for Girls

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

c. 1890

Boston Museum

1890

Charlestown & Bunker Hill Monument

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

1905

Jaynes Store at Hanover and Washington streets

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

1871

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

c. 1880

Horticultural Hall

1901

East Platform of North Station

1940

Kids in Quincy

1846

First Surgery Using Inhaled Ether

1963

Taxi at Saxony Bar & Lounge

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1916

Snow plow on Berkeley Street

1906

Memorial Hall

1954

Galina Ulanova and Yuri Zhdanov in the ballet Romeo and Juliet

1967

Bagel Production

1925

Conversation between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein

1939

Man and Woman Installing Lie Detector

1907

Pigeon Camera

1970

Flight Attendants